OUT ON A LIMBSelected Writing, 1989-2021By Andrew Sullivan It’s truly hard to provide a short description of “Out on a Limb,” Andrew Sullivan’s newest book.
Yes, it’s a collection of his essays, stretching through 32 confused and contentious years of American history. But because it’s Sullivan, and Sullivan was and is a unique and always controversial presence in American politics and culture, to call the book a mere “collection of essays” is to do it a grave injustice.
Perhaps it’s better to call it a series of journeys. There’s Sullivan’s journey through the AIDS crisis and then the gay marriage movement.
It’s hard to overstate his importance in laying the intellectual and philosophical foundation for the political, philosophical and.