A “lethal aversion to reading”
“It's not a stretch to say that if the president read, thousands of lives might have been saved”: in The Week, Windsor Mann writes about Donald Trump*’s “lethal aversion to reading.”
A meeting of the minds
Another step toward what I call the reality-TV-ification of everything : today’s Donald Trump–Kanye West meeting. How glorious to have two proud non-readers of books in the Oval Office at the same time.
Close-reading Brett Kavanaugh
If Kavanaugh wants to claim (in a way that defies all plausibility) that the acts of which he’s accused were without sexual intent, the denial “I’ve never sexually assaulted anyone” becomes a crafty way to dodge the question of whether he did what he’s accused of doing.
“Thin it out”
Everything that needs to be conveyed to the President must be boiled down, the former staffer said, to “two or three points, with the syntactical complexity of ‘See Jane run.’”
“Do you read?”
Joe Scarborough asked Donald Trump a question.
Whose whom?
I’d bet a Happy Meal that Trump didn’t write this statement.
Geoffrey Nunberg on Trump’s “amateurish quotation marks”
Geoffrey Nunberg, writing about “the least literate president to take office” since Zachary Taylor.
Nat Hentoff (1925–2017)
“I was addicted to books.”