This was a really good overview of fear, along with some closely related emotions, and how they affects people and politics. Most of the chapters focus on fear, disgust, misogyny, and similar concepts, while the last chapter tries to looks forward towards more productive idead of how to change things.

Other than that final chapter this book was fantastic, but the final chapter on hope felt rather naive and occasionally unfocused. The book was written after Trump's first election, and I read it shortly after his second; it may just be terrible timing, but it's Nussbaum's point feels like it isn't strong enough to combat the reality that this climate of fear has put us in.