Reader’s Corner: ‘Strangers in Their Own Land’ – Fury and Crisis in Trump’s America

(photo: Gage Skidmore)

It’s hard to look at today’s chaotic political and cultural landscape and not wonder—among many,many other things—in deference to Joan Walsh’s book from a couple years back: “What’s the matter with white people“?

A part of the answer can be found in Arlie Russell Hochschild’s fantastic new book Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right. It came out last month and is necessary reading to understand what is and has been going on in America for...