Stephen K. Bannon isn’t the only person offering a candid assessment about the Trump administration in the upcoming book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trum
This excerpt from Michael Wolff’s ‘Fire and Fury’ reveals the inside story of Donald Trump’s mind-boggling campaign. Trump never planned to be president – here’s how his inner circle created the most dysfunctional White House ever.
Once upon a time, a child was born into wealth and wanted for nothing, but he was possessed by bottomless, endless, grating, grasping wanting, and wanted more,
Donald Trump offers such consummate political theater—his gargantuan narcissism makes him so mesmerizing to watch—that it is to wake abruptly from an all-enveloping dream to realize that much of what he says has no...content behind it. His assertions, framed in simple, concrete, direct language, are not policy statements so much as attitudes.
The greatest damage done during Trump’s first year concerns neither domestic nor foreign policy, but something far deeper: it is the harm he has caused to America’s political system and to the democratic norms that underlie it. No evaluation of the impact Trump has had as president could be complete without addressing his attacks upon the rule of law, upon notions of political and racial tolerance, upon national unity, upon the freedom of the press, upon civil discourse, upon truth itself. The result has been to fray the bonds that hold American society together.
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It is a mistake to think that Trump has been causing damage only to a few specific regulations or areas of policy. The effects have been pervasive.
‘As the ice shelves crumble and the Twitter president threatens to pull out of the Paris accord’, Franzen reflects on the role of the writer in times of crisis
The most telling aspect of Trump’s UN speech was, after threatening to “totally destroy North Korea,” his calling the possibility of nuclear conflict “unthinkable.” On the contrary, we must think about it. And crucial to any understanding of the moral import of the possible use of nuclear weapons is to go back to the foundational moment of this nuclear age and ask again: Were Hiroshima and Nagasaki war crimes?
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Ariel Dorfman, an emeritus professor of literature at Duke University, is the author of the play Death and the Maiden and the forthcoming book of essays Homeland Security Ate My Speech and the novel Darwin’s Ghosts.
Sherman Alexie on what it means for Trump to treat the entire country like a reservation — and writing a memoir about a great woman who was not a great mother.
Reading Yeats in the Age of Trump from Boston Review. No poet captures the feeling of political failure—of having lost an unfair fight—like W. B. Yeats.
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