In a way I’m grateful to Stripe here, because I’d want for the list of curated books at Stripe Press, I would never have come across Martin Gurri and his book, “The revolt of the public”.
This is easily one of the most important books of this decade IMO, and reading it offs a substitute for several year’s of confusing, contradictory, and frequently ignorant opinion columns.
To add to the fact that his insights are so clarifying, he’s a good person too; here’s a recent interview at Stripe:
Written eight years ago, so much has happened that it cries out for a second edition or a sequel, but the original is still worth reading because this analysis is completely missing from all the news that I ever come across.
Here’s the link to the book: "The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium" at Amazon
(yes this is a bit of a dup, I already mentioned it here; it's another bit of "old draft triage")