It's nice leaving a mag review to sit for a while because now it's like, okay what do I actually remember from this because that, surely, is what I will retain. Viz.: 1) Alexander Hamilton was not the Hamilton you know from Hamilton, the musical, but a financialist and proto–"illiberal democrat"; 2) the Trumpian "Russian hacking" stuff is basically nonsense, overblown from start to finish (wish I could remember the details here! note to self--read with attention!); and 3) the ballad of Ivan Illich, who was "against everything" and for human dignity, and an economy, education system, health care system, and everything else that gave us maximum power to decide for ourselves and do it for ourselves (he was right). I feel informed incrementally and made incrementally better, and there's nothing good or bad cept thinking makes it so. ( )