It’s one thing to criticize this or any President from the comfort of the faculty lounge. It’s quite another to lose one’s job and then deliver a detailed chronicle of concrete executive branch failings resulting in untold harm to innocent people around the world. That’s what Nicholas Enrich, a longtime civil servant at the U.S. Agency for International Development, has done with his insider account of the dismantling of USAID. Appropriately titled, Into the Wood Chipper the book pulls no punches regarding what the author describes as a lethal mixture of incompetence and indifference. Can’t miss this one.