The many analysts, including me, who had argued that Trump could not win the general election were relying on pre-Babel intuitions, which said that scandals such as the Access Hollywood tape (in which Trump boasted about committing sexual assault) are fatal to a presidential campaign. But after Babel, nothing really means anything anymore––at least... See more

The system of checks and balances that I believed to exist in grade school has been shattered, as a man with a red baseball cap has torn down the curtain he didn't even try to hide behind. Our emerald city is bleeding and in between beatings we continue to drink the Kool-Aid and joke about moving across borders, when deep down we know we're too... See more

But police violence, and Trump’s daily assaults on the presidential competence standard, are only part of the disaster. On the other side of the political aisle, among self-described liberals, we’re watching an intellectual revolution. It feels liberating to say after years of tiptoeing around the fact, but the American left has lost its mind. It’s... See more