Results for "Sexton, Jared Yates"

From the author of American Rule and the host of The Muckrake Podcast, an ambitious account of how white supremacist lies, religious mythologies, and poisonous conspiracy theories built the modern world and threaten to plunge us into an authoritarian nightmare.   To fully understand these stran... Read More about The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis

This provocative, “critically important” memoir of working-class boyhood in rural Indiana offers a searing cultural analysis of toxic masculinity in American culture (NPR). As progressivism changes American society, and globalism shifts labor away from traditional manufacturing, the roles that have ... Read More about The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making

From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes an eye-opening journey through American history that unearths and debunks the myths we've always told ourselves.  Recent years have brought a reckoning in America. As rampant political corruption, stark inequality, and violent bigotry ... Read More about American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World but Failed Its People

“Sexton grapples with the Trump campaign from the perspective of the crowds reveling in the candidate’s presence and message. It is a useful vantage point given the increasingly blatant bigotry in the months since the election.” —The Washington PostThe People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Y... Read More about The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage

“Sexton grapples with the Trump campaign from the perspective of the crowds reveling in the candidate’s presence and message. It is a useful vantage point given the increasingly blatant bigotry in the months since the election.” —The Washington PostThe People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Y... Read More about The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage

This provocative, “critically important” memoir of working-class boyhood in rural Indiana offers a searing cultural analysis of toxic masculinity in American culture (NPR). As progressivism changes American society, and globalism shifts labor away from traditional manufacturing, the roles that have ... Read More about The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making