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Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
Trump violated conservative orthodoxy on numerous issues, including taxes and entitlements. “I want to save the middle class,” he said. “The hedge-fund guys didn’t build this country. These are guys that shift paper around and they get lucky.” But Trump’s main heresies were on trade, immigration, and war. He was the first American politician to suc
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
Who built palaces for his personal pleasure while schools decayed and his country’s health care system collapsed. Who maintained one of the world’s most expensive armies while he allowed his nation’s infrastructure to crumble. Who channeled resources to his cronies and political allies, allowing them to siphon off much of the country’s wealth for t
... See moreBen Fountain • Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
He was spawned in a gold-plated sewer with other creatures of our celebrity trash culture: investment gurus, talk-show hosts, evangels of the Prosperity Gospel, surgery-altered TV housewives, bling-worshiping rappers. His supporters are part of us, too. Yes, I’m aware that we’ve become two countries—but each one continually makes the other. A failu
... See moreGeorge Packer • Last Best Hope: America in Crisis and Renewal
as if he, too, might have another hundred years or two to document what time hides forever in plain sight.