Sunday Reading: What Is America, and for Whom?

I wrote about how to situate our Trumpist moment in U.S. history – sparked by a question I have been getting constantly in recent months: “Why is America suddenly so divided?”

The thing is: Division is the historical norm. We need to start there.

One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops aren’t marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse

I wrote about the idea of evil, how it’s usually performed through Iago, and why the uniquely evil individual can be a scapegoat in our world where dealing mass death has simply became the way of things, which goes beyond individuals and administrations.

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