Cabinet Fantasies and the ICE Dragnet Good morning! Or rather, good spectacle. The day began as so many now do: Donald Trump before cameras, inside a room recently redecorated to his tastes, congratulating himself for the achievement of having arrived. What was billed...
The Immigrant We Are Asked to Applaud Donald Trump hates immigrants. This is not a controversial statement; it is a brand pillar. It has been chanted, legislated, and televised. It has been used to make signs reading “Mass Deportations Now” and embroider it onto red...
Something To Think About . . . All things being equal—an important phrase, since nothing has been equal since cable Fox news discovered steroids—MAGA voters would never support a candidate accused of the things Donald Trump is accused of. In a simpler century, such...
European leaders, with admirable restraint, have begun to repeat, slowly and clearly, that NATO was designed as a partnership of equals. It has lately been observed in the capitals, courts, and council chambers of Europe that a most extraordinary clarification was...
Horseless Carriages Were Declared a Trivial Side Quest The Lords of Wall Street assembled—by telephone rather than torchlight—to hear from the House of Tesla, whose founder and High Visionary, Elon of Musk, addressed them with the calm confidence of a man explaining... 
