Mess We're In: How Our Politics Went to Hell and Dragged Us with It

A tide of populism and xenophobia is sweeping the western world. Disillusioned voters are turning to political outsiders and increasingly rejecting the liberal economic solutions of out-of-touch elites. Despite having access to more information than at any time in human history, we are turning our backs on experts, evidence, and facts themselves in a new Era of Electronic Ignorance. Many warn darkly of a repeat of the chaos, misery, and war of the 1930s. How did it all go so wrong? The Mess...