Month: March 2018

Could a Trump/Kim Summit Be a Good Idea?

I don’t know. Maybe the “Deep State” should let the president meet with Kim Jong Un. Consider this some devil’s advocacy. Sure, it’s crazy to just agree to meet a foreign adversary with barely any...

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Trump is Liberated to Act on His Impulses

I am still undecided about how much weight to give Gabriel Sherman’s reporting. He relies so much on unnamed sources that I find myself doubting that all his quotes are real. On the other hand, he does seem to have a gift...

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Dutch Media Take EU Disinfo Watchdog to Court

Cross-posted from EuroTrib Introduction: Dutch politicians want EU anti-fake news watchdog scrapped The Tweede Kamer, the lower house of Dutch parliament, wants to get rid of the European Commission’s task force against...

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David Brooks Tries to Understand the Youth

To a degree, I understand that David Brooks’s myopia is a product of his upbringing and that this isn’t very unusual. I grew up in Princeton, New Jersey in the 1970s and 1980s, and it wasn’t a typical...

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