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In Groupthink, his final book, the late, eminent journalist and bestselling author Christopher Booker seeks to identify the hidden key to understanding much that is disturbing about the world today. With reference to the ideas of a Yale professor who first identified the theory, and to the writings of George Orwell from whose'newspeak'the word was adapted, Booker sheds new light on the remarkable – and worrying – effects of'groupthink', and its influence on our society. Booker defines the three rules of groupthink: the adoption of a common view or belief not based on objective reality; the establishment of a consensus of right-minded people, an'in group'; and the need to treat the views of anyone who questions the belief as wholly unacceptable. He shows how various interest groups, journalists and even governments in the twenty-first century have subscribed to this way of thinking, with deeply disturbing results. As Booker shows, such behaviour has led to a culture of fear, heralded by countless examples throughout history, from Revolutionary Russia to Napoleonic France and Hitler's Germany. In the present moment it has caused countless errors in judgement and the division of society into highly polarised, oppositional factions. As Booker argues, only by examining its underlying causes can we understand the sinister power of groupthink which permeates all aspects of our lives.

Un recorrido histórico y social sobre la corrección política y sus enemigos. ¿Qué es exactamente la corrección política? En este libro Ricardo Dudda intenta comprender por qué la corrección política protagoniza innumerables debates, además de convertirse en la obsesión de los movimientos populistas. Para el autor, el concepto ampliamente manipulado se ha transformado en un arma de doble filo en las guerras culturales contemporáneas: no solo define una actitud sino también una forma de control de la opinión pública. Es, en definitiva, un fenómeno que tiene que ver con el civismo y el respeto a las minorías, pero que se alimenta de eufemismos y vacua retórica. Al reflexionar sobre la izquierda identitaria o políticamente correcta, incapaz de ofrecer un relato atractivo para los votantes desencantados, Dudda nos plantea una serie de preguntas difíciles de responder. ¿Es la corrección política una de las causas de la victoria de Trump o el Brexit? ¿Es la izquierda contemporánea, con su discurso sobre el cosmopolitismo y la diversidad, responsable del auge y triunfo de la ultraderecha en Occidente? Fresco y provocador, La verdad de la tribu nos ofrece un análisis que se postula como una defensa del cosmopolitismo, el pluralismo y la tolerancia, y de la Política como única herramienta para fomentar la convivencia.

Donald Trump is the Thing-that-should-not-be. The man lives, quite literally, in a building serviced by a golden elevator. Somehow, he presented himself as the scourge of the elites. For decades, he built a persona based on the most conspicuous consumption and the crassest of excess — and then he won the presidency on an antiestablishment ticket. The unlikely rise of Donald J Trump exemplifies the political paradox of the twenty-first century. In this new Gilded Age, the contrast between the haves and the have-nots could not be starker. The world's eight richest billionaires control as much wealth as the poorest half of the planet — a disparity of wealth and political power unknown in any previous period. Yet not only have progressives failed to make gains in circumstances that should, on paper, favour egalitarianism and social justice, the angry populism that's prospered explicitly targets ideas associated with the left – and none more so than so-called ‘political correctness'. If Trump – and others like Trump – can turn hostility to PC into a winning slogan, how should the left respond? In the face of a vicious new bigotry, should progressives double-down on identity politics and gender theory? Must they abandon political correctness and everything associated with it to re-connect with a working class they've alienated? Or is there, perhaps, another way entirely? In Trigger Warnings, Jeff Sparrow excavates the development of a powerful new vocabulary against progressive causes. From the Days of Rage to Gamergate, from the New Left to the alt-right, he traces changing attitudes to democracy and trauma, symbolism and liberation, in an exhilarating history of ideas and movements. Challenging progressive and conservative orthodoxies alike, Trigger Warnings is a bracing polemic and a persuasive case for a new kind of politics.

This collection of nineteen of Kenneth Minogue's essays, written over a period of more than fifty years, celebrates the advent of modern liberty. They describe the conditions under which liberty and individuality can flourish and the threats to liberty's flourishing in our time. Minogue offers a powerful critique of political correctness, of ideological flights from reality, and of the deformities of study in the modern university.

The book ascribes the late state of paralysis affecting dissent in America to the adoption of a peculiar gospel of divisiveness, which was promoted in the Eighties by importing from France the'theories'of philosopher Michel Foucault.