That was a rousing read, of the best kind! It was especially astute on the paradox that the reasons writers and artists are able to speak back to power of this kind is because they are so precarious already that they have the least to lose. A passage begins referring to Anna Burns's Booker acceptance speech, in which she thanked her food bank. Passages critiquing American liberal intelligentsia and liberal journalism felt so important. This is a genuinely important book for the moment!