New nonfiction · 2026

Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era

2026 book by Susan Neiman

Summary

Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era is a 2026 nonfiction book by American philosopher Susan Neiman on the nature of systemic evil in collective settings. Neiman writes that evil begins "When self-interest becomes the basis of reason, evil no longer needs to justify itself," adding. "It’s already been mistaken for rationality."

From the Wikipedia article “Call It Evil: Understanding the Trump Era”, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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