The Fine Print: Ibram X. Kendi and the Chain of Ideas

For many people, America’s rapid authoritarian turn came out of nowhere.

Not Ibram X. Kendi.

The author of Stamped From the Beginning and How to Be an Antiracist shows in his new book Chain of Ideas: The Origins of Our Authoritarian Age that America’s anti-democratic policies are part of a worldwide trend—one that long predates the current administration.