Subtle and brilliant insight. The spectacle and stagecraft isn’t only to make us focus on the dictator, but even more to make us look away from our own moral compromises in the face of autocracy. “Trump is funny— can’t you take a joke?!”
The devil’s best trick is convincing us he doesn’t exist.
Heads I win, tails you lose: Trump’s innovation in foreign policy. (And every other policy.)
Considering what they are heroically sacrificing IN THE DEFENSE OF EUROPE, wouldn’t you think that a way could be found? EU bureaucracy at its smug and rigid worst.
Didn’t even need a cane! Progress…
He almost gets it… I hope Tester runs for that seat!
Preparing for a career in teaching, I see…
The Great Man! Wonderful to see him quoted here. A sentence from Permanence and Change also comes to mind in our current predicament:
"It requires a very high degree of imaginative insight to hate a person who is thousands of miles away."
Perverted tools, infected faculties—what are we doing? Why?
“Spokesman Mar-a-Lago Bob told reporters today…”
All that golfing in the Florida sun…
“The pedophile führer's concubine Lindsey Graham…”
Chef’s kiss, Bill!
Staying true to Microsoft’s long tradition of gouging the consumer. But now there are alternatives…
See, being blind is just a temporary inconvenience. Once you understand that, you see that these Nazis were perfectly justified dropping him on a deserted road miles from his home. Suck it up, old man! Start walking!
Yes, I noticed that many thousands of children have died in Africa when our aid and aid workers were withdrawn, and I noticed that this is an imperishable stain on our country’s honor. You don’t notice such matters, do you, Mr Hassett? But your shit-eating grin can’t hide your evil choices.
Chef’s kiss!
I can’t stand the guy, and I’m still embarrassed for him.
Thank you for giving me the chance to write “Markwayne, you’re no Tuberville!“
Marvelous book! Full of unforgettable characters, supremely fun to read. And it’s all true!
Soft Secession, David: we need to stop subsidizing their dissolute ways.
“Your wife is chaste, your friend is honorable, and you are a jealous tyrant.” Because he can’t hear the plain truth, he loses all he loves. Only after 20 years’ penance can he be eligible for redemption.
How would we update the terms of that story for AG Sulzberger??
Thanks for the reference!
Brilliant essay, and the best possible advice to your colleagues. Since they haven’t taken it, I guess we have to blame the publishers (along with the dead hand of convention and precedent).
If A Winter’s Tale is the relevant model, you’re the Delphic Oracle who tells Leontes,
This is New Deal thinking: like a new Civilian Conservation Corps. Back to the New Deal! We never should have left.
into policies and their effects on citizens, economy, laws, and civic culture. Mainly doc-based, without big personalities: politicians described in terms of their legislative options, decisions, and working coalitions. Like scientific Balzac without the soap opera plots. Is it just Pro Publica?
I’ve been thinking about this:
*De-emphasize the importance of “access”: send only junior reporters to the White House for briefing room stenography, reported as merely that, while senior reporters stay at home and in the press room at their outlet, doing deep investigative dives
I can’t wait to see how the Supreme Court twists itself into six pretzels to say that this is not a violation of the First Amendment!
Private college might get away with it, but public college? Not even this Supreme Court!
The stupidest man in America, except when it comes to finding a new grift.
“Unjustified Entitlement sees itself in the mirror…”
Queen!
George Osborne? The guy who crippled the UK economy with a decade of phony austerity? That George Osborne? Very credible! And what does it say about OpenAI that they chose him as their spokesperson?
Jesse “Big Daddy” Unruh would like a word:
"If you can't eat their food, drink their booze, screw their women, take their money and then vote against them the next morning, you have no business being up here."
Amen. Warner’s doing a public service, and we ought to thank him.
