Neiman's book is written with considerable flair, as many critics have already noted, but it possesses a far rarer and more valuable quality: moral seriousness. Her argument builds a powerful emotional force, a sense of deep inevitability. . . . It is not often that a work of such dark conclusions has felt so hopeful and brave.
Mark KingwellSocrates was likewise right that pissing people off is how we first, and maybe best, go about the business of provoking thought.
Mark KingwellParadoxically, the problems of politics often arise not in the form of a problem of scarcity, but as one of abundance.
Mark Kingwell