Close Encounters With Accountability Citizenship: Critical Thinking on American Politics and Government

This book equips readers to analyze and understand divisive issues threatening the foundations of the American Republic. In a series of 31 essays Stephen Tryon has crafted a brilliant interdisciplinary survey to empower citizens students public officials and those aspiring to serve. Close Encounters With Accountability Citizenship is a guide for the practical application of critical reasoning to matters of governance and public policy. Informed by concise overviews of the science of truth history behavioral psychology and current events the author presents substantive discussions taken from his eight-year tour of duty on the front lines of Americas political blog wars. Key terms and study questions guide the reader at the end of every section. Solutions at the end of the book reveal the logical structure supporting essays highlighted in the study questions. As a whole this collection is an accessible practical aid for improving the ability of American citizens to process information effectively. As we pursue this goal our society must embrace humility and tolerance while recalibrating political systems to value compromise over conflict.