Digital Deception Is Bipartisan

Invisible Rulers: The People Who Turn Lies into Reality, by Renée DiResta (PublicAffairs, 448 pages, $34)

The author of Invisible Rulers tries to push conservatives away. Read her book anyway. Better than almost anyone else in the public arena, Renée DiResta of the Stanford Internet Observatory understands the mechanics and the stakes behind America’s digitally driven “bespoke realities” (a term she coined), which place the country’s cohesion and governability at grave risk and should concern everyone. If only she could acknowledge that her tribe is as afflicted and accountable as the usual suspects.