“Erratic as the president sounds, the Trumpian worldview is comprehensible and even, in some respects, predictable,” @EliotACohen argues.
Category: Bibliography
America vs. the World
The Unspeakable, Enabled
[The Washington Post] The most elusive founder, whose pamphlet fired up a revolution
With “Common Sense,” published 250 years ago this month, Thomas Paine was just getting started.
NYTimes: Trump’s Second Term Has Ended the Conservative Era
Trump’s Second Term Has Ended the Conservative Era www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/opinion/donald-trump-conservatism-nationalism.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
AI’s Memorization Crisis
***** How the Supreme Court Broke Congress
******* NYTimes.com: The Liberal Order Can’t Heal Itself
The Liberal Order Can’t Heal Itself
Our problems run deeper than debates about affordability.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/opinion/liberalism-postliberalism-affordability.html?smid=em-share
******** The Dark Psychology of Social Networks. From 2019
***** Reading Is a Vice
“When literature was considered transgressive, moralists couldn’t get people to stop buying and reading dangerous books,” Adam Kirsch writes. “Now that books are considered virtuous and edifying, moralists can’t persuade anyone to pick one up”: