Why Dispatches From A Collapsing State?
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 made it abundantly clear that something was very, very wrong in the United States of America. Though many want you to believe it was an aberration, and that everything will be fine, Trump was merely a symptom of a much larger disease. We are living in a moment of crisis. Democracy and the fate of the future depend on recognizing the overarching problem, the means by which we arrived here, and how we might answer the moment. Dispatches From A Collapsing State is my attempt to do just that and shine a light on the consequences of hypercapitalism, unchecked corruption, white supremacy, patriarchal dominance, and the rise of authoritarianism that is currently threatening us all.
About Jared Yates Sexton
Jared Yates Sexton is a political analyst and author whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, Politico, Salon, The Daily Beast, and elsewhere. He is the author of The People Are Going To Rise Like The Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage, The Man They Wanted Me To Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making, American Rule: How A Nation Conquered The World But Failed Its People, and the forthcoming The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. He is the co-host of The Muckrake Podcast.
He can be reached at jysexton@gmail.com
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