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Insufficient Rewards

How We Traded Integrity for Comfort and Outsourced Morality to History

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Pub Date Sep 1 2026 | Archive Date Sep 15 2026


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Description

Decipher global violence, avoid history’s traps, and reconnect with humanity.

The modern world is caught in a strange dance of righteous outrage and numbing distraction, an era of revolt paired with moral fatigue. Insufficient Rewards: How We Traded Integrity for Comfort and Outsourced Morality to History exposes not only how the logic of insufficient reward traps us in complicity but also how reclaiming personal integrity is our most urgent form of resistance.
Decipher global violence, avoid history’s traps, and reconnect with humanity.

The modern world is caught in a strange dance of righteous outrage and numbing distraction, an era of revolt paired with...

Advance Praise

Insufficient Rewards: How We Traded Integrity for Comfort and Outsourced Morality to History, is a unique look at how we view and process history, written from a moral philosophical lens. It's particularly relevant for current times, where our ideological and political polarization has gone off the rails and historical illiteracy is devastating informed discourse. Jay has astutely and cleverly picked out patterns and precedents we can all learn from that I haven't seen written about anywhere else -- and he writes in a really engaging, playful way that had me going, 'Oh, now I get it!' more than a few times.

- Ali A Rizvi, The Atheist Muslim

Shapiro journeys into the wound left by our comforting myths of progress and finds in our modern crisis not despair, but a revolt for the moral integrity we were told was no longer necessary. An exploration with integrity and depth.

- Anjan Sundaram, Best Selling Author of Bad News and Breakup 

Insufficient Rewards: How We Traded Integrity for Comfort and Outsourced Morality to History, is a unique look at how we view and process history, written from a moral philosophical lens. It's...


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EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9781803419985
PRICE £15.99 (GBP)
PAGES 256

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