The Tribe: some more details, including blurb and cover design
Imprint Academic has made available some details of my book, The Tribe: the liberal-left and the system of diversity , on its website here . [ Update: it is now available for pre-order via Amazon here and on the Imprint website here ] The Tribe : book cover The blurb reads: From Islamist terror to feminist equal pay campaigns and the apparent Brexit hate crime epidemic, identity politics seems to be everywhere nowadays. This is not entirely an accident. The progressive liberal-left, which dominates our public life, has taken on the politics of race, gender, religion and sexuality as a key part of its own group identity – and has used its dominance to embed them into our state and society. In The Tribe , Ben Cobley guides us around the 'system of diversity' which has resulted, exploring the consequences of offering favour and protection to some people but not others based on things like skin colour and gender. He looks at how this system has almost tota...