"The Nation-State Is Perhaps the Greatest Ally of Social Democrats Committed to Equitable Economic Settlements with Attendant Cultural Security"

"Embery pushes beyond the tired complaints about 'wokeness' to attack this pseudo-radicalism as the latest solvent on both class and community solidarity. Splitting people into mutually exclusive groups defined by immutable characteristics destroys any possibility of class radicalism. Of course, prejudice and bigotry against minorities are reprehensible, but as Embery points out, 'The sheer venom that is often directed at people for simply holding a belief that until fairly recently was regarded as the conventional wisdom' is the sign of a new orthodoxy that brooks no ideological heresy."

Henry George at Quillette reviews Paul Embery's Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class.