What emerges is a radical framework for understanding the crises roiling American contemporary politics. The book takes what Malik considers to be the 'six most influential myths behind our age of discontent': the myths of gender equality, the crisis in political correctness, the free. Interweaving reportage with an incendiary analysis of American history and politics, she offers a compelling account of how calls to preserve free speech are used against the vulnerable how a fixation with wokeness, political correctness, and cancel culture is in fact an organized and well-funded campaign by elites and how the fear of racial minorities and their 'identity politics' obscures the biggest threat of all-white terrorism. Reviews Nesrine Malik writes with urgent eloquence about the world we live in, applying her brilliant mind to some of the most important debates of our age. The answer to those questions, according to journalist Nesrine Malik, is no, and she makes a compelling case for her viewpoints in her book We Need New Stories. Exploring how these and other common political myths function, she breaks down how they are employed to subvert calls for equality from historically disenfranchised groups. We Need New Storiesis a non-fictionbook written by journalist and author Nesrine Malikin 2019.1 It discusses 'toxic myths' on matters such as freedom of speech, political correctness, racialand identity politics, and national myths(particularly in relation to the United Kingdomand the United States, and how these impact decision-making. In We Need New Stories, Nesrine Malik explains that all of these arguments are political myths-variations on the lie that American values are under assault. When banned from Twitter for inciting violence, Trump and his supporters claimed that the measure was an assault on free speech. Since Malik wrote We Need New Stories, the world has completely transformed. Reeling from his victory, Democrats blamed the corrosive effect of identity politics. In 2016, presidential candidate Donald Trump declared: I think the big problem this country has is being politically correct.

We Need New Stories by Nesrine Malik