Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government
    Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government
    Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government
    Audiobook9 hours

    Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government

    Written by Dana Milbank

    Narrated by Johnny Heller

    4/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    Washington's most acerbic (and feared) columnist, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank, skewers the peculiar and alien tribal culture of politics.

    Deep within the forbidding land encircled by the Washington Beltway lives the tribe known as Homo politicus. Their ways are strange, even repulsive, to civilized human beings; their arcane rites often impenetrable; their language coded and obscure. Violating their complex taboos can lead to sudden, harsh, and irrevocable punishment. Normal Americans have long feared Homo politicus, with good reason. But fearless anthropologist Dana Milbank has spent many years immersed in the dark heart of Washington, D.C., and has produced this indispensable portrait of a bizarre culture whose tribal ways are as hilarious as they are outrageous.

    Milbank's anthropological lens is highly illuminating, whether examining the mating rituals of Homo politicus (which have little to do with traditional concepts of romantic love), demonstrating how status is displayed in the Beltway's rigid caste system (such as displaying a wooden egg from the White House Easter Egg Roll), or detailing the precise ritual sequence of human sacrifice whenever a scandal erupts (the human sacrificed does not have to be the guiltiest party, just the lower ranked). Milbank's lacerating wit mows down the pompous, the stupid, and the corrupt among Democrats, Republicans, reporters, and bureaucrats by naming names. Every appalling anecdote in this book is, alas, true.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 22, 2008
    ISBN9781400176045
    Homo Politicus: The Strange and Scary Tribes that Run Our Government

    Related to Homo Politicus

    Related audiobooks

    Political Ideologies For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      ‘Crack Their Skulls’: The Latest Book On Trump Shows America Had A Narrow Escape

      Jun 29, 2021

      The summer of 2020 was a dark time for Americans’ right to protest. A glorious one, sure, as the murder of George Floyd sparked a nationwide (and worldwide) movement that changed the world’s discourse on racist police violence – but chilling and sobe

      4 min read

    • Article

      Some Strange Eruption: Watching ‘Station Eleven’ and Teaching ‘Hamlet’ to the Class of 2022

      Jul 6, 2022

      If they learn nothing else by the time their graduation caps land, I hope they learn this. The post Some Strange Eruption: Watching ‘Station Eleven’ and Teaching ‘Hamlet’ to the Class of 2022 appeared first on The Millions.

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Cruelty Is the Point

      Oct 3, 2018

      The Cruelty Is the Point
      5 min read

    • Article

      Trump Feared Democrats Would Replace Biden With Michelle Obama, Book Claims

      Jun 8, 2021

      Donald Trump called Joe Biden a “mental retard” during the 2020 election, a new book says, but was reluctant to attack him too strongly for fear the Democrats would replace him with Hillary Clinton or Michelle Obama. Biden went on to beat Trump by mo

      2 min read

    • Article

      QAnon Has Merged With White Christian Evangelicals, Experts Say — And The Results Could Be Lethal

      Mar 10, 2021

      The House of Representatives has left Capitol Hill for the week, but the National Guard soldiers standing watch around a hardened post-insurrection security perimeter could have their work cut out for them today. “We have obtained intelligence that s

      5 min read

    • Article

      Jonah Goldberg: Pandemic Is A Blown Opportunity For Conservative Nationalists

      May 20, 2020

      Future historians of the American right are going to have a devil of a time figuring out what the hell happened as the second decade of the 21st century came to a close. But every day I become more convinced about at least one of their conclusions: T

      3 min read

    • Article

      2020 Is Winding Down, But The Drama Isn't: Read These Books Now To Make Sense Of It

      Sep 9, 2020

      Trainwreck. Demented. A dumpster fire of a year. We've all seen the social media memes, and most of us are ready to be done with 2020. But it isn't over yet. We still have a rancorous election season ahead of us as the country continues to reel from

      7 min read

    • Article

      'This Is America. ... And Here, Right Matters'

      Nov 24, 2019

      In her diary entry for July 15, 1944, Anne Frank wrote words that would harrow and challenge generations not yet born: "I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart." Less than a month later, "people" would discover An

      2 min read

    • Article

      Wildland Review: Evan Osnos On The America Trump Exploited

      Sep 19, 2021

      Ever since Donald Trump was inaugurated as president, bookstores have been flooded with volumes attempting to explain America’s unraveling. George Packer’s Last Best Hope, published earlier this year, provided one of the best diagnoses. But this new

      4 min read

    • Article

      In Memoir, Nikki Haley Hammers White House Team But Pledges Allegiance To Trump

      Nov 11, 2019

      In With All Due Respect, the former U.N. ambassador says Trump's ex-Chief of Staff John Kelly and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asked her to help them "save the country" from the president.

      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Homo Politicus

    4/5

    19 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      An enjoyable look, albeit a somewhat disturbing one at times, at the bunch of loons we entrust to run our nation. Somewhat skewed in its skewering, it looks at more Republican misdeeds and oddnesses, but then my admittedly-biased opinion is that there are more misdeeds and oddnesses on that side of the aisle. YMMV.