The Dead Center takes an acerbic and often ribald eye to
contemporary politics, particularly those of mainstream liberals in
the United States. Combining engaging polemic and serious
intellectual analysis, it offers a timely portrait of a political
landscape sullied by an already ineffectual Biden administration, the
marginalization of forces around Bernie Sanders and the ominous
shadow of Donald Trump in the wings.
In these pages
Jacobin staff writer Luke Savage exposes the hollowness and
futility of the liberal project in the 21st century, offering searing
critiques of some of its leading figures, notably Barack Obama and
Justin Trudeau, and touching on topics that extend over the
milquetoast politics of the Biden presidency, Aaron Sorkin’s The
West Wing, the monopolists of Silicon Valley, and the worst
excesses of cable news punditry. Always deeply informed, often on the
basis of direct personal experience, Savage’s book also explores
the recent trajectory of younger people away from the liberal
mainstream and towards the socialist left.
