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Summer of Our Discontent: The Age of Certainty and the Demise of Discourse by Thomas Chatterton Williams (Review)

Reviewed by Timothy Sandefur

Sep 08, 2025
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New York: Knopf, 2025
245 pp. $30

Thomas Chatterton Williams has recently emerged as one of the most interesting American intellectuals writing on questions of race and “identity politics.” Son of a black father and a white mother, Williams previously published Self-Portrait in Black and White (2019), in which he offered an eloquent autobiographical accou…

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