The Unaccountability Machine

As I was reading The Unaccountability Machine it struck me that author Dan Davies comes across as akin to Archilochus' proverbial hedgehog (i.e., the one with the single big idea). Indeed, the book has all the energy of a man who realizes that he's decoded the secret to understanding the world and, thus burdened with such knowledge, is possessed by the desire to share that knowledge with anyone…