Authority : Essays on Being Right
Reading Andrea Long Chu is always an exhortation to dismantle some authority--outer, inner, or usually both. The writing is triggering, exhilarating, and illuminating. She demands we think counterintuitively, radically, and exactingly, with paradoxical precision and irreverent urgency. This collection coalesces around the dialectic of freedom and authority--and shows us that challenging this binary is vital to us as thinkers, readers and citizens.