There are some had-been-going-moribund terms reappearing in our daily discourse over the last few years. Grifter. Shyster. Flim-flam man. There is wide public use; there are obvious public examples. Plural. Yet, somehow, these terms seem too small for the present...
For those paying attention, sometimes fevered attention, to the election this year, it can be hard to look away. It’s a kind of self-reinforcing ailment in which you think that if you are not looking, something bad may occur. Not FOMO, but perhaps Fear of Not Doing...
It’s a political season. We must take encouragement where we find it. Every murmured “I like your button”, every half-smile, every thumbs-up is a reminder that national bombast, whatever its volume, is not the only method of communication in the country we love. We...
