Public Affairs


Autocracy, Inc.
The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
The High Cost of Free Parking
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again
How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America
The 99% Invisible City: A Field Guide to the Hidden World of Everyday Design
In Pursuit of Happiness and Good Government
Alexander Hamilton
The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy
The Conservative Heart: How to Build a Fairer, Happier, and More Prosperous America
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
The Road to Serfdom
Walter Lippmann
We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.
Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion

David Frum
Power creates temptations, and that is true even for the smallest increments of power: the power of the building inspector, of the customs official, of the cop at the traffic stop. It took a lot of work by a lot of people over a long time to build even America's highly imperfect standards of public integrity. Undoing that work would be a far easier task. Corruption is the resting state of pubic affairs; integrity a painstaking, unceasing struggle against cultural inertia and political gravity. ...more
David Frum, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic

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