Trumpism
The Mass Psychology of Trumpism Eli Zaretsky Sep. 18, 2018 Since the Republican primaries of 2015-16, some people have turned to psychiatry in an effort to locate the irrational wellsprings of Trump’s victory, but...
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An Intellectual and His Lofty Contempt ‘Gore Vidal: United States of Amnesia,’ a Documentary Stephen Holden May 22, 2014 When Gore Vidal declared in an old television debate with William F. Buckley Jr. that 5...
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A selection of stories from The New Yorker’s archive The Story Behind the Novel Where do novels come from? Great ones seem almost miraculous; it’s amazing to think that each rich world was created within a single mind. This...
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SONGS FROM MELNITSA IN COMBAT WITH THE FAT WASHINGTON LADY – HOW RUSSIAN POP SONGS FARE AS THE NOBEL WAR PRIZE GOES TO BOB DYLAN John Helmer Oct. 20, 2016 In the war against Russia, the award of the Nobel Prize for...
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Mark Twain and the 2016 US Presidential Race 145 Years Ago There was no possible way of getting out of it, and so, in deep humiliation, I set about preparing to “answer” a mass of baseless charges and mean and...
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Masks are ripped away in Syria Oriental Review Thu, Oct 13, 2016 In recent weeks, the battle for Aleppo has exposed the true heart of contemporary global politics with vivid clarity. The US Air Force’s...
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BY MARIA KONNIKOVA 11/03/2016 In 1920, a sixteen-year-old Graham Greene decided that, after “104 weeks of monotony, humiliation, and mental pain,” he could no longer remain at Berkhamsted, the prep school where he was enrolled....
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