Guest
Biography
Peter Wood is the president of the National Association of Scholars and author of the new book, WRATH: America Enraged, as well as last year’s acclaimed 1620: A Critical Response to the 1619 Project. A former professor of anthropology and college provost, he is the author of several books about American culture, includingDiversity: The Invention of a Concept (2003) and A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now (2007).
Wood is a frequent media guest who has appeared on major radio and television programs nationwide. He is the editor in chief of the journal Academic Questions and a widely published essayist. In 2019, he received the Jeane Kirkpatrick Prize for contributions to academic freedom. He is based in New York City.
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12/14/2021
Guest(s): Peter Wood
Over the course of roughly four generations, from around 1950 to the present, American culture has been transformed from a culture that believed in the value of self-control into a culture that celebrates self-expression. And that “self-expression” has now twisted into a new form…
