Median Voter Guy, Poltics from the Middle

Median Voter Guy

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...

Biden was considered a moderate when he ran for president; also an old guy with lots of experience. By a 100 days in office a couple of...

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing and The Future of the Human Race (2021), Walter Isaacson. This was a great book,...

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World (2021), Simon Winchester. A series of diverse essays that have something to do...

The pandemic and political upheavals demonstrate how brittle our culture and economy are. This is not unusual in the history of humans....

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know (2021), Adam Grant. This is another useful book from psychology; this time about...

Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (2021), Elizabeth Kolbert, the author of The Sixth Extinction writing about human’s attempt...

Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food from Sustainable to Suicidal (2021), Mark Bittman, a unique food history focusing on the shift...

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow (2016), Harari, another provocative Harari book, with things to contemplate, reconsider, expand my...

Millions of employees were on the Trump team beginning in 2017, whether they liked it or not. He appointed a couple of thousand, by...