Source: Washington Monthly
by Richard D Kahlenberg
“In a moment when the President of the United States is trying to use the power of the state to intimidate critics in academia and the media (not to mention his political opponents), some may think that a new book like Thomas Chatterton Williams’s Summer of Our Discontent, which focuses mainly on the illiberalism of the left, is terribly timed. They will fault the author for ‘not meeting the moment,’ or worse, for ‘enabling’ an autocrat by articulating ‘right-wing talking points.’ Liberal critics have already panned the volume …. In fact, the book by Williams, an iconoclastic writer for The Atlantic, could not have come at a better moment. It is precisely because Donald Trump is wreaking havoc daily that it’s crucial to comprehend why so many of our fellow Americans came to dislike the Democrats even more than the unlikable and chaotic man they elected president.” (09/11/25)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2025/09/11/thomas-chatterton-williams-summer-of-our-discontent/