Al Jazeera · WorldNews · 2026-09-06
How the West’s promise of freedom created a world of anger
How the West’s promise of freedom created a world of anger. Why does anger seem to rule the world today? Pankaj Mishra traces our age of anger to the collision of Enlightenment promises of liberty and equality with empire, nationalism and capitalism. He asks what happens when those promises are broken – and when the Global South turns Western ideals back on the West itself.
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