The media February 2018
Methods of madness
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On the media and the Twenty-fifth Amendment.
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 deemphasis of inconvenient facts in the coverage of a leak scandal.
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 the question of objectivity in recent coverage of the Trump administration.
On Donald Trump and the mantle of a growing movement.