The coming challenge: How to counter freely chosen obscurantism without descending into the sewer of pathology.
Anne Appelbaum posits, rightly, that Trump, his like-minded cohort around the world, and his millions of adherents reject the Enlightenment and all that it represents in terms of human progress over centuries. She refers to them as the “new Rasputins” (a reference that risks puzzlement on the modern reader’s part) and says that: “The supporters […]
It’s not Trump’s hell-to-pay threat, but a promise to let Netanyahu bomb Iran, which led to the Gaza ceasefire.
Three days to the Barbarian’s return. Still hoping for a stroke. Meanwhile, US and Israeli media speculate on credit for the cease-fire agreed between Israel and Hamas. The competition: Biden, Trump, or Netanyahu. Much is made of Trump’s purported threat there’ll be “hell to pay” if a deal wasn’t reached by the time he’s inaugurated. […]