I’m increasingly doubtful that such divisions are bridgeable. How do you reach the fantasy island inhabited by the many Republicans whose, um, casual relationship with the truth leads to demands that any inquiry into the Jan. 6 insurrection look hard at Democratic malfeasance and culpability?

That’s a question on which the very future of our democracy may depend. And that’s the book I most want to read.

-Frank Bruni in the NY Times