South Africa: How Eusebius Mckaiser's Review of 'White' Presages a Rupture in Culture Wars

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Let's look at what philosophical and ideological touchstones seem absent from mainstream 'woke' discourse, how the excerpts that McKaiser read from 'White' underscore those shortcomings, and why it's crucial to reinforce those joints before they're pressure-tested.

Conventional wisdom says one shouldn't write about a book one has just started. But this article isn't about Bret Easton Ellis's White (Random House, 2019) as much as Eusebius McKaiser's engagement with it. The book's title and McKaiser's choice to review it make me think he's foreseeing a shift in political and ideological winds we'd do well to get ahead of.

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