The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis
The Midnight Kingdom
by Jared Yates Sexton
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0593185234 | 381 pages | True EPUB | 6.25 MB
by Jared Yates Sexton
English | 2023 | ISBN: 0593185234 | 381 pages | True EPUB | 6.25 MB
From the author of American Rule and the host of The Muckrake Podcast, an ambitious account of how white supremacist lies, religious mythologies, and poisonous conspiracy theories built the modern world and threaten to plunge us into an authoritarian nightmare.
To fully understand these strange and dangerous times, Jared Yates Sexton takes a hard look at our nation’s history: namely, the abuses committed by those in power and the comforting stories that shaped the way the West has viewed itself up to the present. As reactionaries and authoritarians cling to myths about “Western civilization,” The Midnight Kingdom exposes how political power, religious indoctrination, and economic dominance have been repeatedly weaponized to oppress and exploit, sounding an alarm for what lies ahead as the current order frays.
Beginning with the Roman Empire and racing through centuries of colonization, war, genocide, and…