Tag: Politics

This is a great book.  However, before I tell you why I recommend it, I want to address the objections you might have. There are typos. There are

Will we be a functioning democracy after Trump?  After I finished Trumpocracy, I was both more frightened and more hopeful.  In this book, David Frum explains how our

I don’t normally insert politics into this blog but this book felt different because of the questions it asked. I won’t make a habit of it. Promise. A

A while back, I read an article about how a part of the reason for our opioid epidemic is our loneliness.  In many ways, Packer’s The Unwinding is

There is a long tradition of American politicians using their offices to barter power and influence and to enrich themselves.  I know what you’re thinking—I am about to

We live in a complicated world.  The fact that Michael Burry, a man with Asperger’s, was one of the literally handful of people to foresee the housing collapse

There was an interesting article in The New York Times that argued Trump was doing so well at least in part because of his celebrity status.  The reasoning

In a column he wrote last year, David Brooks said (in essence) that he sees hope for American conservatives.  Why?  Because there are now new conservative ideas about