(Posted by John.)
I'm reading The Assault on Reason, and it's very good. But I have this rule I go by: if a potential political candidate writes a book where he goes after the media hammer and tong for their incredible incompetence, he's not going to do well in a campaign covered by that same media. And if he writes a chapter in his book where he goes over, in great detail, the historic and modern day problems with concentrations of great wealth and power, he'll be caricatured as a Cultural Revolution-era Maoist.
So as much as I'm enjoying the book, for the first time I really do think Gore's being entirely sincere when he says he doesn't plan to run. I think it's probably the only way he'd feel quite liberated enough to write the book he has.
Aside from the parts I've mentioned, the book is actually very interesting, spanning from neuroscience to Communications Theory (part of what I studied in University, so I'm biased.) So help Al help the rest of us: buy his book.
