Jonathan Steinberg

Look back in anger | 19 January 2017

Does our present climate of violence date back to the 18th century? Or has America’s global hegemony been largely to blame?

  • Age of Anger: A History of the Present

    Pankaj Mishra

    Allen Lane, pp. 387

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