“An intellectual feast… Blakely joins the ranks of great theorists of ideology. ” ― FRANK PASQUALE, Cornell University <“A brilliant tour d'horizon of modern politics.

” ― MATTHEW SITMAN, co-host of Know Your Enemy “Makes the case for a more subtle and mind-opening perspective on ideology . .

. people who regard themselves as immune to ideological contagion would do well to read Blakely’s book.

” ― INSIDE HIGHER EDModern political life is a confusing terrain of competing ideologies. Jason Blakely offers readers a lively, fresh and insightful guide through the labyrinth.

Lost in Ideology sets out from the conviction that the current disorientation engulfing the world's liberal democracies is in no small part ideological in origin. People feel confused because there are multiple ideological maps, so to speak, each marked by dramatically different points of interest, rivers, summits, roads, and total topographies.

Ideology in the modern era has the paradoxical effect of orienting millions whilst it disorients millions more. This leads us to the predicament in which individuals of every imaginable political stripe confidently declare: "I have a theory – but you? You have an ideology!".