Age Of Anger: A History Of the Present

"Why is the world so angry? Why Brexit? Why the rise of nationalism? Why are large swaths of the world suddenly so attracted to demagogues? Pankaj Mishra, attempting to make sense of this confusing world of ours, makes a compelling, erudite case that the disrupting forces of globalization and rising income inequality inevitably provoke backlashes – and points to the turn of the last century, when as the world was modernizing, those left behind turned in frightening ways to demagoguery, violence, hatred of the other and a desired return to some mythical past."