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Fintan O’Toole
The Second Coming
“With allies on the Supreme Court and with control over the Senate and (most probably, at the time of writing) the House of Representatives, Trump will have no one to regulate his urges.”
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Ben Tarnoff, Zephyr Teachout, Bill McKibben, Michael Hofmann, Linda Greenhouse, and Garry Wills
The Return of Trump
“His disorderliness is part of what makes him so entertaining. He is the consummate heel, a performer who owes much to the beloved antiheroes of professional wrestling. But beneath the buffoonery is something deathly serious. Large numbers of Americans have come to believe that their body politic is severely diseased. In Trump, they have found a man ruthless enough to inflict the remedy.”
Zadie Smith
The Dream of the Raised Arm
“How does one become a totalitarian subject? What—aside from the threat of violence—are the necessary conditions?”
Jenny Uglow
The Legacy of Red Vienna
In socialist Vienna between the wars, inclusivity and empiricism underpinned modernism in literature, music, and art, as well as academic life.
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Joseph O’Neill
All Bets Are Off
“Must the onus of opposition again be borne by our concerned citizenry, now exhausted and dispirited after nearly a decade of extraordinary civic effort? Who can they look to for leadership and inspiration? Barack Obama? Mark Cuban? Who have issued statements congratulating Donald Trump on his victory?”
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