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Australian Books

In the land of the blind

27 February 2021

9:00 AM

27 February 2021

9:00 AM

Fortitude: American Resilience in the Era of Outrage Dan Crenshaw

Twelve, pp.256, $41.00

Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another Matt Taibbi

Tantor, pp.304, $12.00 (e-book)

Somehow, American culture has got itself into a terrible mess of division and acrimony: elites against mainstream, progressives against conservatives, blue states against red states. They have always been an argumentative bunch, our American cousins, but the level of conflict has reached such heights that the whole system is starting to totter.

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