Matthew Jordan’s review of Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion | Goodreads
4/5: I enjoyed it! I was engrossed by half of the essays and neutral on the rest. Unsurprisingly, my favorite part was the history of the wedding industry, because it illustrated far better than I could—with my LECTURES and my PEDAGOGY—why history is essential to criticizing, or really understanding, any social phenomenon. When you learn about the mass marketing campaign to make white dresses and gift registries and diamond rings seem like old traditions, it becomes very difficult to take these things seriously. (More broadly, when you unpack the social construction or historical contingency of ...
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