I really did not enjoy this book. The advertised concept was intriguing, how we were forced into declaring ourselves as either conservatives or liberals, left or right. And by being placed into that “box”, we had to accept all of the positions of that group. What the author called a “package deal”. Interesting.
Can one be pro-life, yet against open immigration? Etc, etc.
I do not feel the author met the projected theme of the book. Instead, he went off on lengthy tangents, and in the process exposing his own opinions.
After reading this book, I felt like nothing was accomplished.

Disappointment. British. Millenial. Sociologist. How you feel about the prior three words, perhaps possibly in combination, will very likely determine how highly you rate this book. As this is a three star review, one can easily see that I myself fall into this. I *am* a Millenial that has presented at a sociological conference while in college, despite being a Computer Science major, though I am admittedly American and generally have as much use for Britons as I do of anyone else. That is, if I don’t directly know you, I don’t particularly care about you – either for your better or for your ill, though I generally hope we all experience good things rather than bad ones.

All of that to say that the text at hand is a solid conversational topic, and for the most part an intriguing examination that requires a deeper thinking. HOWEVER, there are key points where the author’s own prejudices and lack of knowledge shine through almost blindingly, and ultimately in his attempt to get away from what he calls “package deals”… he winds up creating “package deals” of his own. For example, conflating anti-abortion beliefs with gun control beliefs, rather than their more natural anti-capital punishment and anti-war beliefs. Recommended, but think hard about what you are reading.