Christopher Caldwell is a contributing editor at the Claremont Review of Books and a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times. He was previously a senior editor at the Weekly Standard and a columnist for the Financial Times. He is the author of The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties and Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West.
The Wall Street Journal's Best Political Books of 2020 "One of the
right's most gifted and astute journalists"
-- New York Times Book Review
"The Age of Entitlement is a work of history, not a work of
sociological analysis. It does not conclude with a list of
solutions or proposals. But this is no ordinary work of history. It
engages and dazzles the reader in the way the histories of A.J.P.
Taylor once did. Caldwell, as those who know his journalism and his
2010 book Reflections on the Revolution in Europe will know, has a
marvelous talent for pointing out the unacknowledged contradictions
and perversities in the outlooks of both left and right."
--Commentary "American conservatism's foremost writer... This is a
heretical, unsettling work"
--The Irish Times
"A deeper, wider cultural and constitutional narrative of the last
half-century... Caldwell's account is indispensable -- especially
for liberals -- in understanding how resentments grew... nuanced
and expansive"
-- Andrew Sullivan, New York Magazine
"The Age of Entitlement is an eloquent and bracing book, full of
insight."
-- New York Magazine
"A sweeping but insightful examination into every social, political
and legal decision, movement and trend that leaves us where we are
today in a polarized nation. ... a fascinating read that could
ignite 1,000 conversations ... Caldwell's analysis of our Vietnam
legacy is particularly masterful but the book brims with brisk
evaluations of how a confident nation became an argumentative,
fragmented one."
-- The Associated Press
"In all, a deeply felt, highly readable, and dead honest account of
America since the 1960s and the terrible wrong turn we took then
and continue to follow, disrupting what we used to call the
American way, and leading to the increasing alienation of many of
our most productive citizens, who believe they may be losing their
country."
-- The Washington Times
"The Age of Entitlement rudely dismembers the moral pretensions of
our ruling class in the tradition of Christopher Lasch. If the
trajectory of political correctness leaves you bewildered, here you
will learn its institutional logic--the key role it plays in
legitimating new structures of inequality. Thanks to Caldwell, we
now understand how this regime change happened, and why half the
electorate thought it necessary to cast a vote of desperation in
2016."
--Matthew Crawford, New York Times bestselling author of Shop Class
as Soulcraft
"In this landmark cultural and political history of the last
half-century, Christopher Caldwell brilliantly dissects the new
progressive establishment, and shows how the reforms of the sixties
gradually devolved into intolerance, self-righteousness, and the
antithesis of what had started out as naive idealism. A singular
analysis by a masterful chronicler of the sixties dreams that have
gone so terribly, but predictably, wrong."
-- Victor Davis Hanson, author of The Case for Trump
"Scholarly, provocative, insightful: this is history-writing at its
best. Readers of Caldwell's journalism will instantly recognize his
capacity to use a single moment or event to illuminate a much wider
phenomenon. Anyone wishing to understand the failure of the
American elite over the more than half century since President
Kennedy was assassinated, and thus why Donald Trump was elected,
must read but profoundly thoughtful book."
-- Andrew Roberts, New York Times bestselling author of Leadership
in War
"The sharpest and most insightful conservative critique of
mainstream politics in years."
-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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