Median Voter Guy, Poltics from the Middle

Median Voter Guy

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants , Robin Kimmerer, 2013. Kimmerer is a...

Democracy Awakening: Notes on the State of America , Heather Cox Richardson, 2024. Democracies can die because of voting, but why?...

The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth , Zoe Schlanger, 2024. Schlanger...

Technology: A World History , Daniel Headrick, 2009, a quick review of tech development, with world-wide coverage. Editor’s Preface....

Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans do it More, and How it Could Burn Down Our Democracy , Bill Adair,...

War , Bob Woodward, 2024. The book mainly covers the period since 2020 when Biden became president and all the issues and responses by...

Revenge of the Tipping Point [RTP]: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering , Malcolm Gladwell, 2024: destined to...

Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI , Yuval Harari, 2024. The primary focus is on artificial...

Autocracy, Inc.: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World , Anne Applebaum, 2024. I recently finished reading 1984 . Now the question is...

The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis, George Stephanopoulos, 2024. As a special advisor and spokesman for Bill...

1984, George Orwell (Eric Blair) was a British novelist, journalist, and poet, focusing on totalitarianism. World War II gave the world...

Stowaway: The Disreputable Exploits of the Rat, Joe Shute, 2024. It’s all about rats! It came out in mid-2024 and for some reason I just...

New Cold Wars: China’s Rise, Russian Invasion, and America’s Struggle to Defend the West, David Sanger, 2024. After the collapse of the...

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, Dan Ariely, 2008. Introduction: How an Injury Led Me to Irrationality...

H is for Hope: Climate Change From A to Z, Elizabeth Kolbert, 2024. Short, with drawings by Wesley Allsbrook. Basically, short essays....