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Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era

Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era

Neiman, Susan

Hardcover

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

Publisher Price: $27.99

PREORDER - Expected ship date September 15, 2026

ISBN10: 1324131047
ISBN13: 9781324131045
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Sep 15 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.30
Language: English

Call It Evil is a bold reckoning with one of the most fraught words in our vocabulary. Far from being a religious or outdated concept, evil is a vital lens, Susan Neiman argues, through which to understand the threats we face today.

Neiman is one of our most important philosophers, and one of the world's leading thinkers on the nature and question of evil. She opens this sharp, revelatory work with the idea that the reelection of Donald Trump is the outcome not simply of political and economic forces but the erosion of values that have been subject to derision for more than a century. She goes on to show how we have been quietly bombarded from all sides with messages that undermine basic moral principles. Misreadings of Adam Smith and Charles Darwin have led to a view of human nature we now accept as common sense: ideals are for losers, or for politicians who wish to deceive them. Neiman then explores how that ancient view, first formulated by pre-Socratic philosophers, has been steadily promoted by corporate interests and (pseudo) scientists in the modern era. Drawing on history--from European fascism to the moral failures of recent U.S. leaders--she demonstrates how the normalization of evil corrodes trust, destroys justice, and endangers our future.

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