The Digital Republic, by Jamie Susskind

The Digital Republic (2022)

An attempt to apply institutional reform to existing liberal institutions. Offers one prescription of a path forward — which is to say, he does the constructive work I deliberately deferred. If you close my book frustrated by that deferral, go here next.

Read it asking: Susskind tries to reform existing institutions. I argue their premises are anachronistic. Can you reform an institution whose starting assumptions no longer hold, or does that only make it more efficiently wrong?