September 2018
Constituting truth
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On truth harnessed for political utility.
On truth harnessed for political utility.
On the media and the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
On the election of Donald Trump and the first year of his presidency.
On the media’s attack on decency and the decline of civilized discourse.
On the media’s self-serving presuppositions of scandal.
On the American party system, and our current disruptive moment.
On Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders, Autumn by Ali Smith, Universal Harvester by John Darnielle, Ill Will by Dan Chaon, & I'd Die For You by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
On Donald Trump and the mantle of a growing movement.
On the question of objectivity in recent coverage of the Trump administration.