The headlines move fast. The context rarely keeps up.
That's the idea behind four titles from the I'm No Expert, But library that happen to line up with what's dominating the news right now: a chokepoint in the Persian Gulf, a war grinding through its third year in Eastern Europe, the fossil fuels that quietly run almost everything, and a trade policy tool that keeps showing up in headlines without much explanation of how it actually works.
Each book follows the same premise. I'm not an expert. I went looking anyway, and I came back with seven things that surprised me enough to write down.
Seven Things You Should Know About the Strait of Hormuz explains why a 21-mile-wide waterway can move oil markets and foreign policy in the same afternoon. Seven Things You Should Know About the War in Ukraine lays out the mechanics behind a conflict most of us only see in fragments. Seven Things You Should Know About Oil and Gas covers the industry that shapes gas prices, geopolitics, and a good chunk of the evening news, whether we notice it or not. Seven Things You Should Know About Tariffs untangles a word that gets thrown around constantly and understood rarely.
None of these books argue a side. They're not trying to. The goal is the same one behind every title in the series: explain the mechanism, name the disagreement where experts have one, and trust the reader to take it from there.
If the news has left you nodding along without quite following, one of these might be worth the hour (or less) it takes to read. All available on Amazon.
Strait of Hormuz: Seven Things You Should Know
War in Ukraine: Seven Things You Should Know
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