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Definitely an interesting book to read now, as it was written pre-COVID, pre-Soleimani, pre-insurrection, and pre-Ukraine. So far the author hits a number of nails on their heads early on.

Wonder what the current rate of US unemployment is... Hmm... I got on the BLS site to find out (thank you nameless Econ prof!)
It says 13% of PA residents as of June 2020, which is the most recent! (https://www.bls.gov/lau/)
KY has the fewest, and MA has the most, which would make complete sense considering the time of year! It might reverse in September, but there is a special issue to consider this go round.

The reason I have not yet been to Europe is high risk, low potential gain.

I studied 7 books on Deng Xiaoping and still would not be able to tell you if what he did was good.

It seems to me that this author's argument is that the problems with my home country can't be focused on the President per se but how We the People act. That's what I've gotten from it so far.