Owen Phillips’s Reviews > Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age > Status Update

Seems foolish to name every group of minorities that were systematically executed by the Nazis other than queer people but maybe I need to stop talking

First chapter where a framework connecting these disparate ideas is actually built. I may be stupid, but it helps!

I don’t want to minimize the impact of racist and anti-immigration sentiment but it does seem to me that quite a lot of good research is being left on the cutting room floor by ignoring gender and sexuality issues but whatever this book is lowkey a mess no tea no shade

The general conceit of separating out the ideas into sections with chapters is good, I like organization. Where it falters is linking these ideas to specific people. Reaching outside of your exemplar political figure to prove the ideological point and vice versa, fails to allow either idea to appropriately cohere.