Interestingly, this was not written for an American audience. Hinde is addressing the British Brexit and Scottish independence voters who alternately see (like many Americans) a high-tax dystopia of socialist oppression or a chic and egalitarian North Sea sphere they could join. Neither extreme is particularly true, and Hinde offers clear-eyed examples of the Swedish Middle Way, from the positives of steps to gender equality to the ugly reaction of far-right parties to Roma migrants and Syrian refugees. By not being aimed at Americans--whose visions of Swedish society are always colored by the seeming impossibility of scaling up their ideas for a much larger and non-homogeneous (by race, history and geography) population, it offers a realistic take on the system in comparison to other European countries (more apples to apples than apples to oranges).