Median Voter Guy, Poltics from the Middle

Median Voter Guy

This is the first of a multi-part blog on predictions based on probability statement, using a Tetlock framework. Part 2 will explore the...

Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America From Trump--and Democrats From Themselves (2020), Rick Wilson. Wilson is (or was) a...

Why We're Polarized: Ezra Klein (2020). This is an important book with lots of content from several perspectives, including a substantial...

Surviving in Putin's Russia is the focus of this book, telling the stories of people in very different circumstances, some famous and...

Arguing With Zombies: Economics, Politics, and the Fight for a Better Future (2020), Paul Krugman. The thesis is that a number of ideas...

Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Head Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks, and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions out of...

Duped: Truth-Default Theory and the Social Science of Lying and Deception (2020), Tim Levine. Gladwell's Talking to Strangers used...

Veblen goods are luxury products (services also apply) where quantity goes up with price, contradicting the usual interpretation of...

After a couple of weeks of House impeachment hearings, what stands out to me is the professionalism of the foreign service officers (also...

An article in the paper ("A Reverb Epidemic" by Thi Nguyen) caught my attention, considering "radical polarization." Politics jumps out...

After Talking to Strangers, it's time to reread Gladwell's earlier books and add some analysis. A basic characteristic of Gladwell's...

The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir (2019), Samantha Power. Detailed memoir of her life, parts of it relevant to a MVG perspective....

Becoming (2018), Michelle Obama, interesting and inspirational memoir by the former First Lady. She grew up in a working class home in...

Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation & What We Can Do About It (2019), Richard Stengel. Stengel was...

Wall Streeters: The Creators and Corruptors of American Finance (2017), Edward Morris. Covers 14 men with influence on 20th century...