"A Section of the Elite That Want to Keep Climbing the Ladder of Privilege but Don't Want to See Themselves as Part of the Elite"

"These works are important in helping make sense of the absurdities of contemporary politics. They explain, for instance, why the Democratic party in the US (and many social democratic parties in Europe) is increasingly a club for the rich and educated, while many working-class voters have abandoned it. They illuminate, too, our culture's obsession with the minutiae of symbolic representation and the policing of language but disregard for real material inequalities."

Kenan Malik at The Guardian discusses Musa al-Gharbi's We Have Never Been Woke.