The *preface to my new book* has just been posted online. While writing Tyranny of Greed, I sometimes wondered whether the political crisis would turn out to be less serious than I was making it out to be. But now, as the book is about to be released, I’m not having those kinds of thoughts. If I could find more dramatic material than political revolutionaries and Biblical demons to portray the gravity of our moment in history, I’d use it.