In Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal, National Book Award-winning journalist George Packer analyzes America's current polarization and paralysis. As with other works that examine our current malaise, his analysis of the roots of the problem is astute. Yet, his solutions, while viable, se ...more
For all of us still trying to process the year we have just lived through, Mr. Packer's analysis will help clarify intuitions you may have had. The pandemic really did shine a light on problems within our society. Those problems will still be there when the pandemic subsides. This book is not long a ...more
This is not a bad post-Trump era commentary on our current circumstances of white nationalism, atomized social groups, group identity epistemology and left cultural authoritarianism. I've probably read one too many books like this at this point so this wasn't particularly profound for ...more
If you had to summarize the current crisis in American politics using just one phrase, a good candidate would be the inability to embrace a shared national narrative. Several competing and incompatible ideologies are not only pulling us in different directions, but also preventing us from engaging i ...more