Enjoying the view from Limbo
The president of the United States told The New York Times within the past few days, with perfect equanimity and matter-of-factness, that his authority and decisions with regard to foreign policy, up to and including any threats and military engagements against America’s allies, are limited only by “my own morality, my own mind.” This may provide reassurance, or more likely rapture, to his...
With each new stage of Trump’s infinite self-diminution and national surrender before the will of Vladimir Putin, the Republican Party’s infinite elasticity and deference to the incredible shrinking president becomes more alarming and nauseating. I cannot help observing how all this Republican shrinkage before the Russian dictator is having the curious effect, whether it be absolute or merely relative, of enlarging and elevating...
Any two objects seen from a great enough distance will look fundamentally similar. The closer we get, the more differences we will begin to discern. The same is true with mental distance. The unfamiliar tends to group itself together in our minds, naturally. As we get to know individual instances within the group, they separate themselves from this new generality in our minds, and we see….
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