The Age of Grievance
Frank Bruni . 2024 . Beaverton Lib. 306.2097 BRU
- no index, incomplete bibliography, litany of awful modern behavior
- I stopped reading the horrors in Chapter 6
- Ch 3 . Grievance Now versus Grievance Then
p44 A Nation of Victims: The Decay of the American Character 1992 by Charlie Sykes
p49 The Bulwark
p62 Beaverton 320.973 KLE Why we're polarized 2020 Ezra Klein
p63 James Kimmel Jr. "... your brain on grievance looks a lot like your brain on drugs." stimulates same neural reward circuitry
2025 book "The Science of Revenge at Beaverton Library
p67 'DeSantis' attacks Disney in Florida
p67 'DeSantis' exhorted Florida Supreme Court ... vaccine makers ... how they might be held accountable for any errors.
p70 Charlie Kirk July 2023 Joe Biden "should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against America" snopes
- Ch 4 . The Lost Shimmer of the City on the Hill
p89 Ours Was the Shining Future 2023 David Leonhardt
- p89 professed American satisfaction 60% 2004, 11% Jan 2011 when the Capitol was stormed
- p90 US more guns, drug deaths, fatal road accidents ... "lifelong death premium"
p94 squid game Korean TV dystopia
p96 "For America to workm you have to have optimism" Jean Twenge
p97 comity mutual recognition, courtesy
p98 The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth 2025 Benjamin Friedman
p98 How Civil Wars Start Barbara F. Walter
p98 The Soul of America Jon Meacham
p99 On Decline Andrew Potter
- Ch 5 . I Love Me, I Hate You, and We Are So Many Rungs Apart
p102 US an "envy engine" ... phrase from Tom Nichols's Our Own Worst Enemy
- p114 alternate "milk" choices a cultural statement, not nutrition
p116 The Coddling of the American Mind ... Setting Up a Generation for Failure 2018 Jonathan Haidt & Greg Lukianoff
- p117 TERF (trans-exclusionary radical feminist)
p127 The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World 2022 Max Fisher
- (content) that infuriates us "are the most engaging ...powerful form of content online"
- a chilling portrait of profit-minded, audience-obsessed tech entrepreneurs devising formulas for engagement often antithetical to the values essential for democratic societies.
- Ch 7 . The Oppression Olympics
Quit Reading Here
- Ch 10 . The Antidote
p249 The Constitution of Knowledge 2021 Jonathan Rauch ... reality-based institutions
p252 Results 2022 Charlie Baker and Steve Kadish
p259 Loretta Ross
p261 The Coddling of the American Mind 2018 Jonathan Haidt Greg Lukianoff
p261 We Need to Build 2022 Eboo Patel