Dispatches From Exile
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Weekly Mind Dump: "The Horror! The Horror!"
Week of 5/31-6/6, 2026:
In Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the “rabbit hole” that is the gateway to Wonderland is also a metaphor for entering a bizarre, surreal alternate reality. As each week passes, as we descend furth...
Weekly Mind Dump: The Greatest Sh*tshow on Earth
Week of 5/24-5/30, 2026:
P. T. Barnum said, “Nobody ever lost a dollar by underestimating the taste of the American public.” Donald Trump evidently had this in mind when he decided to celebrate America’s 250th birthday with a cavalcade of...
Freedom is Just Another Word for Nothing Left to Lose: the Gutting of U.S. News Media
Bari Weiss, the hatchetwoman put in charge of gutting and neutering the award-winning “60 Minutes” news magazine by CBS’s new billionaire owner and Trump crony, David Ellison, has just fired two correspondents and three senior producers. St...
Weekly Mind Dump: What the MAGA-State Fails to Grasp about Public Service & Sacrifice
On April 14, 2001, I participated in a solemn ceremony in Hanoi, Vietnam to repatriate the remains of seven military colleagues who had died a week earlier in a helicopter crash while searching for the remains of Vietnam War-era missing-in-...
Todd Blanche Knows What He is Doing is Wrong. So, Why Does He Do It?
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The ascendance of Todd Blanche, an intelligent, educated man who nonetheless lacks a moral core, drove me to write the following essay, adapted and updated from a previous one I published last year.
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