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Western liberal contempt for nationalism has been practically calamitous. As Darrell M. West documents in Megachange, faced with the rise of extremist religious and ideological identities, it should be evident that the pertinent social menace is fragmentation into op positional identities sustained by the echo chambers of social media. - Times Literary Supplement

Western liberal contempt for nationalism has been practically calamitous. As Darrell M. West documents in Megachange, faced with the rise of extremist religious and ideological identities, it should be evident that the pertinent social menace is fragmentation into op-positional identities sustained by the echo chambers of social media. Times Literary Supplement'

"Western liberal contempt for nationalism has been practically calamitous. As Darrell M. West documents in Megachange, faced with the rise of extremist religious and ideological identities, it should be evident that the pertinent social menace is fragmentation into op­positional identities sustained by the echo chambers of social media.""- Times Literary Supplement"

Centuries from now, when the historians of the future identify our time as the great inflection point in human historythe moment when the pace of change began to accelerate dramatically in the inter-connected spheres of technology, politics, international relations, religion, health, the environment, and gender rolesthey will say one forward-looking American intellectual understood exactly what was happening at the time, grasped its larger meaning, offered wise counsel for how to manage it, and encapsulated his insights in a short, timely, and eminently readable book. That scholar, they will say, was Darrell West, and that book was Megachange. James Rosen, Fox News chief Washington correspondent West's Megachange is an extraordinary study of a world in unpredictable flux, an exploration of every headline-catching change, and a bracing plea for understanding a future we still have a chance to control and build. Hooray for a book every policymaker should read, also every citizen concerned about tomorrow's peril and promise.Marvin Kalb, a former network correspondent, is author of Imperial Gamble and senior adviser to the Pulitzer Center This wide-ranging account identifies and analyzes today s disorienting transformations with uncommon acuity. Its power lies not only in fascinating accounts of difficult and vexing instances, but in showing how the constellation of these diverse but reinforcing occurrences is generating fierce and profound uncertainty.Ira Katznelson, Columbia University and the Social Science Research Council

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Darrell M. West is vice president of governance studies and director of the Center for Technology Innovation at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of twenty-one books on contemporary politics, including, most recently, Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust (Brookings, 2014).

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