What's Our Problem?

By Tim Urban

Categories: Politics & Social Sciences, Self-Help

Tim Urban, creator of the blog Wait But Why, offers "a self-help book for societies" about why American discourse has become so polarized. Using his Ladder framework, which contrasts high-rung thinking guided by reason with low-rung thinking driven by tribalism, he examines political echo chambers, illiberal movements on both left and right, and how a society can climb back up.

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• Elon Musk: “Worth reading”
• David Heinemeier Hansson: “Tim Urban introduced me to the motte-and-bailey fallacy in his excellent book What's Our Problem. I highly recommend it.”