When did it all go wrong? Grandin provocatively connects America’s failing wars and fading empire to its fortress- and prison-favoring mentality today. You might call it the real closing of the American mind. And perhaps the shuttering of our hearts as well as our minds. Grandin doesn’t mince words about America today: “But it’s hard to think of a period in the nation’s history,” he writes, “when venality and disillusionment have been so sovereign, when so many of the country’s haves have nothing to offer but disdain for the have-nots.”
