The Death of Common Sense

The Death of Common SenseBy: Philip K. Howard NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER We need a new idea of how to govern. The current system is broken. Law is supposed to be a framework for humans to make choices, not the replacement for free choice. So notes Philip K. Howard in the new Afterword to his explosive manifesto The Death of Common Sense. Here Howard offers nothing less than a fresh, lucid, practical operating system for modern democracy. America is drowningin law, lawsuits,

and there is material for a hundred controversies in his selections on Joseph Conrad

and revelations of secret worlds beyond Google Maps

everyone thinks they're a human kid named Salty

beasts and cyborgs

And someone has decided that the entire town must pay for the sins of its past

Darwin's Descent of Man continues to shape the way we think about what it is that makes us uniquely human

or is she about to spiral out of control

Ezra Klein reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America's deep political divisions

just right

bold illustrations from Joel and Ashley Selby

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