Publisher’s Note
Anthony Livingston Hall is easily one of the most prolific thinkers of our times. What’s more, his views defy conventional wisdom. The Covid-19 pandemic, Black Lives Matter protests, and US presidential election figure most prominently in this volume. But Hall also comments on the other global events of 2020.
Among his many controversial views, Hall asserts that mandating lockdowns to combat Covid-19 makes about as much sense as it would’ve been to mandate sexual abstinence to fight HIV; that even the Roman Empire was never the dysfunctional mess the United States was under President Trump; that Kim Jong-un was left feeling like a woman scorned after his nuclear affair with Trump; that Britons will feel about Meghan breaking up the royals the way they felt about Yoko breaking up the Beatles; that ‘The Last Dance’ showed Michael as the NBA’s GOAT, but Pippen as the greatest goat of all time; that quarantining millions of Uyghurs for years prepared China to lockdown its citizens with Nazi-like efficiency; that even Christ could not break the cult-like loyalty Republicans show their two-legged golden calf; that the more Trump humiliates white Republican men the more they like him; that Black men seem all too willing to cede the role of protecting their own communities to white men; and that sales of Mary Trump’s tell-all could make her the richest Trump of them all.
Thought-provoking, informative, and entertaining, this volume of The iPINIONS Journal serves as a reliable source of reflection and commentary on the major events of 2020
Review By Romuald Dzemo for Readers’ Favorite
The iPINIONS Journal: 2020 in Real Time by Anthony Livingston Hall begins with a catchy phrase in the introduction: “The year 2020 will live in infamy … the year President Trump compounded losing his bid for re-election by inciting an insurrection to turn American democracy into a Trumpian autocracy.”
This book takes a sweeping look at 2020 and the author opines on every significant event that happened in inimitable and refreshing style. From the Covid-19 pandemic to the migration of Africans to Europe under very dangerous conditions, from the Black Lives Matter protests to the assassination of Iran’s military leader, from Trump’s racist foreign policy to the killing of George Floyd, from Hindu-Muslim violence in India to Sunni-Shia violence in Iraq, from Israeli-Palestinian violence in Israel to China’s continuous challenge to Britain in Hong Kong, from Megxit to MLK Day, and much, much more, he covers it all.
Anthony Livingston Hall not only provides cutting-edge commentaries on contemporary events but maintains a record of history with media references and observations that will remind anyone of what the year was like. He is one of the best contemporary critics of our time, and is an exceptionally good writer. His voice is clear and irresistible, and often laced with humor.
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