How a Book From 1981 Anticipated This Political Moment

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  This is the Opinions, a show that brings you a mix of voices from New York Times opinion.

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  You've heard the news.

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  Here's what to make of it.

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  I'm Pamela Paul, an opinion columnist for the New York Times.

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  And I'm Carlos Lozada, also an opinion columnist at the Times.

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  So both of us have had long roles in the book world.

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  I was the editor of the New York Times Book Review for almost a decade,

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  and you, of course, were the longtime nonfiction critic for the Washington Post.

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  So the two of us tend to see things through the lens of books.

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  And I thought this would be a good time for us to look at our current moment, whether that's political,

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  economic, historical,

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  and think about a book that in some way captures or crystallizes or helps us understand this moment.

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  The book.

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  The book.

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  The book.

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  The book of all the books.

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  That's a high bar.

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  Yes.

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  But you have a book.

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  What did you pick?

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