Sublime

It’s difficult to live in this country in this moment and not come to the conclusion that the principal concern of the modern American liberal is, at all times, not what one does or believes or supports or opposes, but what one is seen to be. From this outcome, everything is reverse-engineered. Being seen as someone who believes in justice—not the

“You’re looking at the election all wrong.” Joel’s tone is mildly patronizing. “If you look at Trump’s agenda it’s the Republican agenda. It’s the things we want. The things I want. It’s tax cuts. It’s less government. He’ll get it done. Trump’s got the Senate. He’s got the House. It’s a decisive victory. He can do things. Great things. Not only

JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon (“It’s a fraud”), Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger (“It’s rat poison”), and Paul Krugman of Princeton and the New York Times (“It’s evil”) were just the kind of “aging white men” whom Marc Andreessen dissed as dependably wrong about technology “almost 100 percent of the time.”