re: I'm looking for a good, recent political book to read. Any sugggestions?

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Death of Expertise may be out of many's comfort zone, because it criticizes the proliferation of "news" sources. I'm in the early chapters of it, but he allegedly argues that the average American can no more be an expert on policy than they can be an engineer or doctor, if not trained to be one.

Not sure how I'm going to react to that argument.

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See that's actually something that could be a good addition to the modern political zeitgeist. Along those lines, an interesting change in approach for we lay political junkies might be to pick a single issue or policy and just study it exhaustively from all angles and see what solutions we might propose. Like literally spending a year or two on it. Probably won't make us experts, but anything has to be better than reingesting belief affirming talking points from all these talking heads, radio shows, and shitty polipop tomes.