Walter Lippmann the Greatest Man I Have Never Heard of?!
Drift and Mastery by Walter Lippman I picked up this book off my partner's shelf of old philosophy books on a night I couldn't sleep. I became entranced with the book and couldn't put it down for the next day. The ideas and observations are timeless; even though this book was written in 1912( the year the Titanic sank), its wisdom rings true to this day, especially as we are going through a time where radical ideologies, corrupt institutions(specifically government and media), and people struggle with all that comes with the ever-expanding changes associated with "modernity." At his time, this may have been the Model T, the radio, and women's rights. We still find a surprising number of similarities in the struggle to incorporate everyday innovations into our interaction with the world and how we imagine our future. What should we hold on to from the past? How do we imagine a new and better future? How do we update our ways of thinking? Our institutions? ...