Median Voter Guy, Poltics from the Middle

Median Voter Guy

The Delusions of Crowds: Why People Go Mad in Groups, William J. Bernstein (2021). Lot of examples. I’m interested in the psychological...

The World That Trade Created: Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present, Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik (2013)....

The Birth of Plenty: How the Prosperity of the Modern World Was Created (2004), William Bernstein. Interesting analysis of what can be...

Knowing What We Know: The Transmission of Knowledge From Ancient Wisdom to Modern Magic, Simon Winchester (2023). A broad brush about...

Silent Spring Revolution: John F. Kennedy, Rachel Carson, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, and the Great Environmental Awakening (2022),...

Philosophy: Everything You Need to Know to Master the Subject (Peter Gibson). Organized by topic rather than period of specific...

A History of the World in 6 Glasses, Tom Standage (2005), specifically on beer, wine, rum (plus whiskey and other similar alcohol),...

Thoreau, Walden or Life in the Woods (1854, 2019 edition). I have a mountain of books to read, so I reread Walden. Granted, it’s a...

How Propaganda Works (2015), Jason Stanley. This seems a timely topic, to be told by a philosopher with experience. It is academic,...

Mike Pence just published his autobiography So Help Me God and been on every talk show around. He proved to be the master of...

Masters of the World: How Media Shaped History from the Alphabet to the Internet (2013), William Bernstein. Bernstein identified four...

Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspective on Civilization (2022), Neil DeGrasse Tyson. [I read this to get as far away from politics as I...

Profiles in Ignorance: How America’s Politicians Got Dumb and Dumber (2022), Andy Borowitz. After a couple of frustrating reads on...

How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them (2018), Jason Stanley. This book was a warning about fascism: “essentially the danger of...

The Destructionists: The 25-Year Crack-Up of the Republican Party (2022), Dana Milbank. Milbank is a long-time columnist for the...