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Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America Kindle Edition

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"An elegant and thoughtful dismantling of perhaps the most dangerous ideology at work today." — BEN SHAPIRO, bestselling author and host of "The Ben Shapiro Show"

"Reading Noah Rothman is like a workout for your brain." — DANA PERINO, bestselling author and former press secretary to President George W. Bush

There are just two problems with “social justice”: it’s not social and it’s not just. Rather, it is a toxic ideology that encourages division, anger, and vengeance. In this penetrating work, Commentary editor and MSNBC contributor Noah Rothman uncovers the real motives behind the social justice movement and explains why, despite its occasionally ludicrous public face, it is a threat to be taken seriously.

American political parties were once defined by their ideals. That idealism, however, is now imperiled by an obsession with the demographic categories of race, sex, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, which supposedly constitute a person’s “identity.” As interest groups defined by identity alone command the comprehensive allegiance of their members, ordinary politics gives way to “Identitarian” warfare, each group looking for payback and convinced that if it is to rise, another group must fall.

In a society governed by “social justice,” the most coveted status is victimhood, which people will go to absurd lengths to attain. But the real victims in such a regime are blind justice—the standard of impartiality that we once took for granted—and free speech. These hallmarks of American liberty, already gravely compromised in universities, corporations, and the media, are under attack in our legal and political systems.

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“Noah Rothman’s pointed, eloquent, powerful, and necessary Unjust marks the distinguished beginning of a what will surely be a remarkable career as an author of books.” -- John Podhoretz ― Editor, Commentary

“An elegant and thoughtful dismantling of perhaps the most dangerous ideology at work today. Modern social justice thinking tears away at our most cherished ideals and institutions. Noah Rothman has done a tremendous service in cutting through the sloganeering and getting to the heart of the matter—the elevation of crude identity politics at the expense of decency, merit, and truth.” -- Ben Shapiro ― Editor in Chief, Daily Wire

“Reading Noah Rothman is like a workout for your brain, and this book also tugs at your heart. Noah calls upon all of us to remember our common identity first—we are Americans. He suggests we start acting like it.” -- Dana Perino ― Press Secretary to President George W. Bush

“Noah Rothman makes it clear that Americans have just two choices before them. They can fulfill the beautiful principles that were outlined in the Declaration of Independence and were then extended by those who fought for the right to their ‘promissory note,’ or they can descend into grievance-mongering, identity politics, and sectarian strife.” -- Charles C. W. Cooke ― Editor, NationalReview.com

“Noah Rothman examines a movement more focused on political retribution than the search for justice, explaining with great insight how has poisoned our politics, coarsened our culture, and turned us into a nation of victims.” -- Joe Scarborough ― host of MSNBC’s Morning Joe

“Identity politics is corrupting the American ideal of e pluribus unum. ‘Out of many, one’ has been replaced by ‘from one into many.’ In this robust endorsement of our nation’s timeless founding principles, Noah Rothman says the things that need to be said but that too few people have the courage to say.” -- James Kirchick ― author of The End of Europe: Dictators, Demagogues and the Coming Dark Age

“Noah Rothman’s first book (of many, I hope) shows how social justice ideologues, left and right, are rejecting the uniquely anti-tribal nature of the American experiment that has allowed us to rise above the tit-for-tat tribal temptation that has marked—and wrecked—so many past civilizations.” -- Jonah Goldberg

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Noah Rothman is an Associate Editor of Commentary Magazine. He lives in New York City.

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Noah Rothman is a senior writer with National Review and a contributor to MSNBC. His work has been published in Commentary Magazine, USA Today, The Washington Examiner, The New York Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic, and The Washington Post. He is the author of Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America (Regnery, 2019) and The Rise of the New Puritans: Fighting Back Against Progressives' War on Fun (Broadside, 2022).

Mr. Rothman graduated from Drew University with a degree in Russian Studies and political science (2004). He earned a graduate degree from Seton Hall University in diplomacy and international relations with a focus on security policy in the former Soviet space (2010).

He lives in New Jersey with his wife and his two sons.

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Several glaring inaccuracies mar what is an overall well-sourced and thought provoking work

Reviewed in the United States on May 3, 2019

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You can tell by the first page of reading Noah Rothman is a man who has a complex understanding of not only the language, but history and historical context. That, I think, besides the rather cutting and satisfying jibes against the subjects of the book, would be the main value. Rothman gives a wonderful overview of how extremism can not only take root but also be rooted out from an educated historical and social point of view.

Unfortunately, on those few subjects he covered that I know very well I saw inaccuracies that I believe stem from his immersion in the media landscape and not critically examining media narratives. Now, I'm loath to defend or attack any politician, politics being a tar baby if ever something could be called one, but it seems he has a blindspot when it comes to President Trump.

Rothman states that there were months long periods where President Trump did not condemn David Duke. Simply not the case, which is a major problem since a few of his conclusions rest on this assertion. In fact, the Friday before the infamous Jake Tapper interview he condemned the man in a press conference. Not only leaving out that fact but leaving out the fact that during that interview it was a group that David Duke was associated with, not David Duke himself, that was the issue is rather glaring and sparks of someone who has not examined their own views critically. Not good in a book about critical examination.

This is not the only inaccuracy that I saw in the issues I'm familiar with, making trust of Rothman on the issues I am not much more difficult. A grain of salt is needed while reading.

Still, the book is very well-sourced and the vast majority of his conclusions and assertions seem sound, so it's not enough to take off a star or stop me from recommending this book. Just something for other readers to be aware of.

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S.J.

Brilliant, bracing read

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2019

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Noah is one of the best writers working today — mostly because he's one of the best thinkers. I've read him in Commentary and listened to him explain complex subjects on podcasts and on TV and I always come away having learned something new and thought about something I thought I knew a lot about in a totally different way.

I knew it would be an "important book," but I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. His writing is incredibly energetic; some of his sentences are mini-essays. Everything he explores is all bad news, but you want to keep going because you get really invested and engaged in the telling of it. It was wonderful to get to "listen" to him at book length, and unsurprisingly I found his observations and recommendations compelling and persuasive.

All in all, brilliant book.

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Tyler Morgan

Falls Short of My Expectations

Reviewed in the United States on March 17, 2020

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While I am on the author's side, I have to admit that the book fell short of my expectations. The book lacks a certain cohesiveness, and the author supplies minimal original insights on the topic at hand. Instead, the book provides somewhat esoteric reflections on social justice's origins, including many philosophical references that are likely to go over the heads of most readers and which seem at best distantly connected to today's social justice warriors. The book also struggles from a lack of focus that is exacerbated by its desire to appear balanced; the author spends almost as much time criticizing the alt-right as he does the social justice warriors on the left. While the author's desire to be unbiased is admirable in today's climate of political polarization, his characterization of the alt-right as part of the social justice movement seems forced. A takedown of the alt-right likely should have been the subject matter for an entirely different book.

Given that the book is a relatively short 240 pages, there is precious little space devoted to actual discussion of the social justice left. Unfortunately, much of this space is filled with cherry picked summaries of recent social justice scandals on college campuses. There is little to no effort by the author to absorb these summaries into a coherent narrative, which results in them having the feel of an undergraduate term paper, rather than the analysis of a serious political thinker.

By the end of the book, I was ready to move on to something with more substance. Although I agreed with the author on most of his points, I felt like I did not learn anything new from the book, and that I was instead only confirming what I already knew. I was hoping to read a book containing original insights of how the social justice left came to where it’s at today, the potential ramifications to society if its rise is unchecked, and how we can constructively challenge the most ridiculous notions espoused by the radical social justice left. While the author may have attempted to satisfy these objectives, I don’t think he was successful, and I suspect that there will be much better books on the topic in the future. With that said, it’s worth noting that this is Rothman’s first book, and the criticisms above notwithstanding, it is not a terrible read and it is obvious that Rothman is a very smart guy with a refreshingly balanced view of the topic. Hopefully Rothman will take another stab at the topic and write the book I wanted to read.

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Astute cultural critique that give insufficient attention to structural components of woke

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2022

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Rothman effectively describes the cultural roots of woke, and the paradox that a hunger for justice can, and indeed has, become an engine of chaos, hypocrisy, deceit, misery, and even greater injustice. The shortcoming of this sort of analysis is that it presupposes that the manifold problems created by wokism will be significantly impacted by yet another demonstration of its intellectual and moral bankruptcy. Rothman's book insufficiently addresses the many US cultural and economic institutions that are now almost irrevocably committed to the suicide cult of wokism.
I wish Amazon Community Standards would allow me to say more. They would certainly allow me to post a one word one star review. Because reasons.

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Saw the author on Morning Joe

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2020

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I bought this book in January, 2019 after watching the author simultaneously promote the book and defend his position on Morning Joe. Noah was, of course, roundly attacked by the leftist, group identitarian regulars on Morning Joe for daring to step outside the bounds of permissible thought. I make a point of supporting content creators who push back against the growing intolerance of leftist cancel culture, so this purchase was nearly automatic. The book itself is a well-written, quick survey of the pre-covid socio-political landscape, and a harbinger of the hell that would soon follow.

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Serious and deeply painful

Reviewed in Australia on May 24, 2019

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This book has been written by a genuinely deep and honest person, whose hope in the ideals and principles of the American Founding and Constitution has been battered by contemporary ‘social justice’ identity politics, mainly from the Left but in varying degree from the extreme Right.

It is highly worth your time to read and think about his evidence and how to interpret it.

I’m grateful to have known about Noah Rothman and his analysis, over the internet and via Commentary Magazine, even though I’ve not met him personally. He is an asset to the magazine and for those who understand what he is trying to do.

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