Anti-Muslim discrimination in America worsened across the post-2001 decade rather than receding

Evidence

As gratifying as it is for me to hear that readers continue to find this book relevant, I’m also, truth be told, saddened by the observation. In 2008, I believed that I had written a book that I assumed would soon be read as an account of our recent history. I didn’t realize then that I was writing a chronicle of our future. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 1009

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• SEED: The ‘prophecy as failure’ angle — a book intended as a history of a passing moment becoming a manual for the present — could drive an essay on how political futures get locked in when demagoguery goes unaddressed.