Gore's new book

A subtle presidential bid? 0

Al GoreAl Gore -- who's giving a major climate-policy speech today (more later) -- is writing another book, to be released in May: The Assault on Reason.

Two things are notable about this:

  • It's a blessing that somebody other than low-level pundits is finally going to publicly acknowledge the increasing air of emotivism, unreality, and illogic that characterizes our national political conversation.
  • As Ezra notes, this is extremely well timed to keep Gore in the public eye, just in case, you know, he decides to ... youknowwhat.

David Roberts is staff writer for Grist. You can follow his Twitter feed at twitter.com/drgrist.

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