One more commentary on the election
It’s by Rebecca Solnit: “Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do.”
It’s by Rebecca Solnit: “Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do”
Nihilism in disguise
Aaron Rupar warns of nihilism masquerading as leftism.
Paying attention
From yesterday’s installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American .
Being a liberal
Cass Sustein offers thirty-four statements to explain why he is a liberal.
HCR on SCOTUS
On more bad news.
HCR on SCOTUS
Heather Cox Richardson writes about yesterday’s Supreme Court decision.
Two visions
From the latest installment of Heather Cox Richardson’s Letters from an American.
“America is minorities”
From the 1945 Department of Defense film Don’t Be a Sucker .
Heather Cox Richardson’s latest
Heather Cox Richardson writes about gun violence, Brown v. Board of Education, Barry Goldwater, Ronald Reagan, and cowboys, real and imaginary.
“The ethical is not halfway”
From an essay by Rebecca Solnit.
Using both hands
Donald Trump* is at West Point using both hands to drink water from a glass, one hand holding the glass, the other propping it up from the bottom. As a friend of mine would say, Not normal!
Mitt Romney marching
The world may not be upside down, but it’s certainly tilting a bit more.
Turtles all the way down
The paranoid style in American politics is never at a loss for explanations: another layer of theorizing can always be added to support a rickety conspiracy theory. It’s turtles, or theories, all the way down.
Trump*’s two plans
David Frum: “Both Trump’s Plan A and Plan B intend to turn American against American, in an ugly spirit of rancor and resentment.”
WWAHPS?
“So when someone says they are ‘a stable genius,’ that is a real cause for concern, because a healthy person would not say that.” Bandy Lee, psychiatrist and professor, talks with Virginia Heffernan about the mental health of our president and our culture.
“Western-style liberalism”
Donald Trump thinks it has to do with Los Angeles and San Francisco.
“Political Teamsmanship”
A dispiriting story from WGBH’s Innovation Hub.
From John Dingell’s last words
“In democratic government, elected officials do not have power. They hold power — in trust for the people who elected them. If they misuse or abuse that public trust, it is quite properly revoked (the quicker the better).”