Progressivism is a mental disorder—that, at any rate, is the verdict one is tempted to reach upon finishing Emily Witt’s striking new memoir, Health and Safety: A Breakdown.
Witt is a reporter for The New Yorker. She lives in Brooklyn. Somehow, she is even more progressive than these facts suggest. Witt probably didn’t set out to write a book that depicts her hard-left mindset as a destructive psychological condition, to be avoided at all costs. Fortunately for her, as well as for readers of every political stripe, that is not all she has done. Combining honesty and talent, she has produced something far more valuable than a partisan screed. A loss of ideological control is the price she has paid to create a worthy chronicle.
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