“In what I believe was the most important book of 2021, Jon creates an absolutely worthy follow-up to Kindly Inquisitors that focuses on the modern crises facing our knowledge-producing industries, particularly higher education and journalism. It makes a winning case that, despite appearances, despite our intuition, despite our confidence, the world around us is and forever will be deceptively difficult to understand.”

—Greg Lukianoff, president and CEO, Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression Philadelphia