O’Neil follows Weapons of Math Destruction with a look at how rehab clinics, social media platforms, and other components of the “shame industrial complex” profit from casting judgment on the vulnerable. The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of HumiliationĬathy O’Neil.
New York Times reporter Williamson details how the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting became fodder for conspiracy theories, and how the families of the victims have fought back. Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for TruthĮlizabeth Williamson. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 10 ($26, ISBN 978-1-8)įukuyama follows Identity with an examination of how progressives and conservatives have pushed the principles of liberalism to new extremes in recent decades.
This study of modern South Africa follows three people-a Black activist, her daughter, and a white ex-soldier-from the 1970s through the end of apartheid in 1994 to the present day.įrancis Fukuyama. The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa’s Racial ReckoningĮve Fairbanks. Rabin-Havt, who served as Bernie Sanders’s deputy campaign manager in 2020, recounts the ups-and-downs of the race and sheds light on his former boss’s political views and personality. The Fighting Soul: On the Road with Bernie SandersĪri Rabin-Havt. Rankin, who spent six years as an abortion clinic escort in New Jersey, shares her experiences and profiles others who have risked their lives to safeguard women’s access to abortion. Journalist Zerwick chronicles Darryl Hunt’s wrongful conviction in 1985 for rape and murder, his exoneration by DNA evidence after 19 years in prison, and the pressures that led to his suicide in 2016.īodies on the Line: At the Front Lines of the Fight to Protect Abortion in America Major themes this season include the 2020 election, threats to democracy and liberal values, the roots of conspiracy thinking, the environmental cost of America’s eating habits, and the ongoing crusade against racial injustice.īeyond Innocence: The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt