There Are Two Forms Of Populism, Left-wing

Donald Trump Seems To Think It Is Within His Rights To Trample The First Amendment, To Disdain The Press, To Punish Protesters Or Flag-burners, To Ban Ethnic Categories Of Immigrants, And So On.

I Live In A Country Where, At Least By My Sense Of Arithmetic And Justice, Al Gore Should Have Been President, Not George W. Bush. To This Day, John Kerry Probably Thinks He Won Ohio In 2004 Because He Had Suspicions About The Vote In Ohio. And, By The Way, Richard Nixon Had Suspicions In 1960 About The Vote In Chicago When He Lost To Jfk.

We Should Put Pressure On Power And Write The Truth And Write Relentlessly And Fearlessly. That's The Job.

I Use Social Media Every Day. I Don't Have A Twitter Account, But Not Because I'm A Dinosaur About It. I Have Enough Of A Platform Here. People In My Position Who Do It Tend To Use It In A Promotional Way Or In A Hamstrung Way. I Look At Twitter All The Time As A News Tool Or For Cultural Conversation. I've Used It In My Reporting. It's Very Useful.

Being Nervous, First Of All, Puts You At A Distinct Disadvantage, And If You've Really Prepared And If You've Really Thought Through How To Start The Conversation, Things Start To Fall Into Place. There Are Other Things I Get Nervous About, But Not That.