Keywords for Today takes us deep into the history of the language in order to better understand our contemporary world. From <strong>nature</strong> to <strong>cultural appropriation </strong>and from <strong>market</strong> to <strong>terror</strong>, the most important words in political and cultural debate have complicated and complex histories. This book sketches these histories in ways that illuminate the political bent and values of our current society. Written by The Keywords Project, an independent group of scholars who have spent more than a decade on this work, Keywords for Today updates and extends Raymond Williams's classic work, Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society. It updates some 40 of Williams's original entries and adds 86 new entries, ranging from <strong>access</strong> to <strong>youth</strong>. The book is both a history of English, documenting important semantic change in the language, and a handbook of current political and ideological debate. Whether it is demonstrating the only recently-acquired religious meaning of <strong>fundamentalism</strong> or the complicated linguistic history of <strong>queer</strong>, Keywords for Today will intrigue and enlighten.