A review by jsoakes
Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Pankaj Mishra

2.0

I'm conflicted on this one. I think the premise was decent: current philosophies that promote nationalism, religious fanaticism, white supremacy, misogyny, and other perspectives that isolate the "other" and promote anger and violence as means of control are not new or novel, but are actually descendant from ideas born in the enlightenment and rehashed a hundred times since then. On the surface, this makes sense and seems reasonable. The supporting information, though, felt rushed and jumpy. It was hard to follow the logic from how one event or idea gave birth to another and the overall work felt jumbled. It may take a re-read to really understand the finer points that were trying to be made, but I'm not really willing to give it the needed effort.