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The twists and turns of American politics are unpredictable, but the tone is unsettling given that it is one of grievance. More and more Americans are convinced that they are losing because someone else is winning. More and more people are counting their indignities, measuring their misfortune and attributing responsibility to certain people. The blame game has become the country's most popular sport and victimhood the most fashionable item of clothing.
Grievances don't have to be bad. It did a lot of good. The United States is a nation born of grievance, and in its nearly two hundred and fifty years of existence as a country, grievance has been the driving force for urgent moral change. But what happens when all kinds of grievances – the biggest, the smallest, the genuine, the invented – are mixed together? When people take their grievances to a point where they didn't before? A violent mob storms the U.S. Capitol, rejecting the results of the presidential election. Conspiracy theories flourish. Fox News knowingly peddles lies in the service of profit. Students are driving out speakers and college administrators are firing instructors because they disagree with progressive orthodoxy. Benign words are called hurtful; benign gestures are considered hostile. And there is a potentially devastating erosion of the civility, common ground, and compromise necessary for our democracy to survive.
How did we get here? What does it say about us and where does it lead us? The Age of Grievance examines these crucial questions and charts a path forward.
Frank Bruni has been a distinguished journalist for more than three decades, including more than twenty-five years at the New York Times, in roles as diverse as opinion columnist, White House correspondent, Rome bureau chief and chief critic restaurants. He is the author of four New York Times bestsellers. In July 2021, he became a full professor at Duke University, teaching in the school of public policy. He currently writes his popular weekly newsletter for the Times and produces additional essays as one of the paper's contributing opinion editors. Contact him on X: @FrankBruni; Facebook: @FrankBruniNYT; Instagram/Threads: @frankabruni64 or his website Frank.Bruni.com.
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