Social Justice Is Unjust

Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America
A book by Noah Rothman

Amazon Summary of this Book

There are just two problems with “social justice”: it’s not social and it’s not just. Rather, it is a toxic ideology that encourages division, anger, and vengeance. In this penetrating work, Commentary editor and MSNBC contributor Noah Rothman uncovers the real motives behind the social justice movement and explains why, despite its occasionally ludicrous public face, it is a threat to be taken seriously.

American political parties were once defined by their ideals. That idealism, however, is now imperiled by an obsession with the demographic categories of race, sex, ethnicity, and sexual orientation, which supposedly constitute a person’s “identity.” As interest groups defined by identity alone command the comprehensive allegiance of their members, ordinary politics gives way to “Identitarian” warfare, each group looking for payback and convinced that if it is to rise, another group must fall.

In a society governed by “social justice,” the most coveted status is victimhood, which people will go to absurd lengths to attain. But the real victims in such a regime are blind justice—the standard of impartiality that we once took for granted—and free speech. These hallmarks of American liberty, already gravely compromised in universities, corporations, and the media, are under attack in our legal and political systems.

Amazon Customer Review

By S.J.

5 Stars
Brilliant, Bracing Read

Noah is one of the best writers working today — mostly because he's one of the best thinkers. I've read him in Commentary and listened to him explain complex subjects on podcasts and on TV and I always come away having learned something new and thought about something I thought I knew a lot about in a totally different way.

I knew it would be an "important book," but I wasn't expecting to enjoy it as much as I did. His writing is incredibly energetic; some of his sentences are mini-essays. Everything he explores is all bad news, but you want to keep going because you get really invested and engaged in the telling of it. It was wonderful to get to "listen" to him at book length, and unsurprisingly I found his observations and recommendations compelling and persuasive.

All in all, brilliant book.

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