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Daily Archives: May 27th, 2018

Defining our terms

Sunday, May 27, 2018

Maggie Haberman is getting a bit of blowback in the twittersphere for her failure to call a lie a lie. You can pick up on the conversation here: http://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1000755597283905537 Her point, if you can call it that, is that if Trump chooses to believe something he spews, it is not necessarily a lie. It seems […]

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A final lesson from the Gilded Age

Sunday, May 27, 2018

One more lesson from the Gilded Age, and, since I’ve now finished Richard White’s The Republic for Which It Stands, this will be the last.  This is not so much a parallel to our own age, but a warning of what we may have to come, assuming we survive the present state of affairs. Toward the […]

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