A few months ago, I finally got around to reading the book Robert Reich suggested we the audience read at his presentation at UC Berkeley, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty. It was a good book, and it certainly added depth to my thoughts on do I stay or no, though it didn’t really change it, or make it easier. While I was checking that out, I figured I’d read something Reich wrote himself, and so it was that I started reading “I’ll be short.”
It’s a great outline of the liberal/democratic philosophy. It does a great job of providing statistics to outline the current problems. It also presents solutions to these problems. I didn’t find his presentation of the solutions to be as compelling as I would have liked, but he was, after all, being short. Each of his proposals could easily have been the subject of many articles examining its effectiveness, which is about what it would have taken for me to give them enthusiastic support. I’d give it a recommendation as an interesting, and engagingly written starting point for people who’d like to go a little deeper on policy issues