In ”How Democracies Die” a couple of political science professors outline the process that has repeatedly been followed as democratic government give way to autocracies, in the 1930s in Europe and in the postwar era in Peru, Venezuela, Chile and … Continue reading
Hayden Keith Monroe
Last week in the “Washington Post,” Ron Charles took note of a rare feat pulled off by “Less,” the winner of the annual Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is a comic novel. He’s certainly right that honors are rarely heaped … Continue reading
President Trump must be the least devious conniver in history. If he were a boxer, he’d put Western Union out of business by telegraphing every punch. If he were a poker player, he’d be all tell and no show. If … Continue reading