Forward: Notes on the future of our democracy
Introduction: Democracy by a thread -- A winding path to center stage -- Deciding to do the unreasonable thing -- The wing ding is stacked against me (or how we learn about candidates) -- Adventures in advertising and social media -- The reality show of running for president -- The eye of Sauron -- Power screws with your mind -- The end of the beginning -- Systems failure -- Death by bureaucracy -- The inhuman economy -- How we know what we know -- Your data whose data? -- Loyalty cuts both ways -- Watching the Watchmen -- Why not much passes -- The wave that wasn't -- Constructive institutionalism (or the priests of the decline) -- The human economy : making what we measure -- Rewiring democracy -- The rational public -- Speaking in facts -- The tax Mandalorian -- Grace and tolerance : humanity in action -- Choices, choices -- The forward party.