Homeland: The War on Terror in American Life
Beck’s central argument is that our current moment, in all its horror, can best be explained by the militarism, xenophobia, and impunity that the War on Terror helped unleash, understood against the backdrop of the United States’ decline from economic hegemony.
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Exhaustive ... Beck’s book itself can be read as an artifact ... This is history as a skipping record. It leaves little room for ethical development over time ... This is the left’s familiar catechism. Beck presents it as revelatory, but it comes off as tedious ... His rejection of politics, his desire to rip it all out from the root, the Manichaean way he has come to see America as a force of darkness, the sense that only through the most 'disruptive substance' will a better world emerge—all of this, too, is a legacy of September 11.
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An in-depth examination and analysis of the forces leading to Trump’s rise to power and many concurrent assaults on our freedoms.
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