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Living in a Land of Imagination

Imagination builds fake realities. In politics, stories are repeated until belief replaces truth, and facts become irrelevant. What starts as make-believe turns into gospel, and people fighting to defend things that were never real.

This Has Always Been Trump’s Character

The attempts to memory-hole Donald Trump's past are a fool's errand. A jury has found him liable for sexual abuse. Dozens of women have accused him. His predatory behavior and contempt for women have been a core, public part of his brand for forty years.

The Strange Afterlife of P.J. O'Rourke

That P.J. O'Rourke quote about liberalism is making the rounds again on social media. It’s a perfect example of how the modern right uses the ghosts of its intellectual past to fuel a movement that has abandoned intellect entirely.