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.