“…much of contemporary discourse and pretty much all of American politics is a dispute over evidence”
Empiricists believed they had deduced a method by which they could discover a universe...
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“The irrelevance of facts is part of what observers mean when they say that the normal rules of politics don’t apply to Trump”
The irrelevance of facts is part of what observers mean when they say that...
“Trump is playing to one of the most powerful emotions in our economic life—what behavioral economists call loss aversion”
Trump is playing to one of the most powerful emotions in our economic life—what...
“…if you think a little thing like losing a general election will dispose of Ted Cruz’s ambitions, you don’t know Ted Cruz”
Unloved, unattractive, a Simpsons-quoting nerd still chasing the teenage dream of world domination, the...
“With Cruz, though, even the most fervent peroration always feels like a debater’s patter, an advocate’s brief…”
Enough, for one week at least, about the strange victories of Donald Trump. Let’s...
“Cruz is the pinup for pessimistic times”
Cruz is the pinup for pessimistic times. Even John McCain, who once dismissed him...
“The 19th-century antecedent that Trump evokes in his nativist appeals to white working- and middle-class Americans is not the populism of the People’s Party but rather that of the Know-Nothing Party of the 1850s…”
The 19th-century antecedent that Trump evokes in his nativist appeals to white working- and...
“Cruz has gone from the insufferable nemesis of Republican traditionalists to their last, best hope…”
Cruz has gone from the insufferable nemesis of Republican traditionalists to their last, best...
“Our first big failing was that television in particular handed Trump the microphone without adequately fact-checking him or rigorously examining his background, in a craven symbiosis that boosted audiences for both”
Those of us in the news media have sometimes blamed Donald Trump’s rise on...
“…unrealistic as Trump’s ideas are, they differ from those of his chief opponents only in degree, not in kind”
In 1980, the third-party Presidential candidate John Anderson succinctly summed up Ronald Reagan’s promise...