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Books
Book reviews and essays from the Washington Monthly on the new books shaping debates over politics, policy, history, and American democracy.
Posted inBooks, Economy, Featured, July/August 2018, Magazine, The Monopolized Economy
The Truth About Big Business
A new defense of the monopolization of the U.S. economy relies on cherry-picked data and misleading arguments.
Posted inBooks, Featured, July/August 2018, Magazine
United We Fall
The more homogenous the parties become, the uglier the divide between them.
Posted inBooks, July/August 2018, Magazine
Ready to Blow
In 1983, a nuclear war game almost turned real. Have we learned our lesson?
Posted inBooks, Featured, July/August 2018, Magazine
Party Faithful
Why being a Republican makes you more religious, and not just the other way around.
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Both Parties Didn’t Give Us Trump
Blaming Trump’s rise on partisan gridlock masks just how ruthlessly the GOP set the stage for his demagoguery.
Posted inApril/May/June 2018, Books, Featured, Magazine
‘Never Trump’ Conservatives Won’t Save Us
They dislike Trump because of who he is, not what he has done.
Posted inApril/May/June 2018, Books, Featured, Magazine
Classless
A libertarian economist calls for ending public education as we know it. It’s a radical proposal—and deeply wrong.
Posted inApril/May/June 2018, Books, Magazine, Main
Trump Meets Political Science
The profession confronts a grim question: Are we witnessing the end of the world’s oldest democracy?
Posted inApril/May/June 2018, Books, Magazine
More Heart Than Science
Industrialized health care has suppressed the human interaction that forms the ineffable “art” of medicine—while failing to achieve true efficiency.
