Is America Polarized?
A Book Review of Unstable Majorities Have the American people become polarized into two partisan camps, representing fundamentally different visions...
Book Review
Book Review: Breaking the Two-Party Doom Loop
If you are even vaguely interested in the state of our country’s politics, you must read Lee Drutman’s Breaking the...
Book Review: Apocalypse Never
Book Review: Apocalypse Never
Book Review: The Great Influenza
I recently finished John Barry’s seminal work on the pandemic that spanned 1918-20, The Great Influenza. Beginning in the spring...
Book Review: Factualness
I recently completed Factualness. It was written by Hans Rosling, a Swedish physician. It is an absolute must read. Rosling...
Has Violence Increased or Decreased Throughout History?
Recently, I did an informal poll of Facebook asking my friends whether they had the impression that violence had increased...
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