In "Age of Anger," Pankaj Mishra explores the motivations behind young individuals from the West joining extremist organizations like ISIS and examines the rise of aggressive right-wing politics in countries such as India, Turkey, and the USA. Mishra connects these phenomena to the great economic and political revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries in Europe, suggesting that the roots of our current age of anger lie in the traumatic social and political changes brought about by those revolutions. The book spans various figures and ideologies, from Savarkar in India to Rousseau in France, providing a bold and comprehensive analysis to understand the complexities of our contemporary world.