The Creativity Con

Från the bestselling and always-prescient author of Listen, Liberal comes a bold indictment of America’s chronic obsession with creativity and innovation, showing how these beloved ideas came to dominate the country’s political and economic conversation, all while serving to mask inequality and protect elite interests. Innovation and creativity have been the defining watchwords of American exceptionalism for decades, used by business thinkers, tech gurus, military strategists, educators, and u