Median Voter Guy, Poltics from the Middle

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Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World (2009), Dan Koeppel. This is another tale of American exceptionalism: bringing a...

Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (2016), Brian Christian and Thomas Griffiths. An algorithm is a set of...

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question (2021). Michael Schur (he created The Good Place). This is a surprisingly...

There is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century (2021), Fiona Hill. Hill became a senior director of the NSA in...

How Europe Made the Modern World: Creating the Great Divergence (2019), Jonathan Daly. The Great Divergence has two parts according to...

Paul Krugman indicated that global trade was facilitated by bigger boxes—shipping containers. Their use meant considerably lower costs...

Democrats are in charge in Washington and seem to crash and burn in terms of getting things done, like the infrastructure bills. Biden’s...

Peril (2021), Woodward and Costa; Woodward seems to know everyone in Washington and get them on the record. This story tells the end of...

Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment (2021), Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony and Cass Sunstein. Several books on decision making and...

Age of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History (2016), Peter Turchin; an interesting time series macro analysis of...

A new Pew Poll (see New York Times June 29, 2021) broke out survey responses relative to which party they align with. Some of the...

The Plague Year: America in the Time of Covid (2021), Lawrence Wright. Granted, there will be dozens of books written about the pandemic,...

Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism (2020), Anne Case and Angus Deaton. A “downer” book stressing specific American problems...

The Premonition: A Pandemic Story (2021), Michael Lewis; another key book from a unique perspective by a fantastic writer. The book tells...

The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, A Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War (2021), Malcolm Gladwell. I read every book that...