Not many presidents could make threatening nuclear war the second worst thing he did in a week.
Gady Epstein
@gadyepstein
A longform editor at The Economist. Formerly China affairs and media editor. Views expressed may be the opposite of my employer’s
Brooklyn and sometimes London
Joined March 2009
- The portrait in the background of this Reuters photo is of Sen Charles Sumner, who was beaten nearly to death in the chamber by a Southern congressman who resented a speech Sumner gave attacking slaveholders. The Civil War started 5 years later
- Harvard’s endowment fund is tens of billions, laying off dining hall workers. Senators are begging Bezos to provide sick leave to workers. Bloomberg fired campaign staff who thought they were good til Nov. The world’s absolute richest are making a good case for taxing them moreThis Post is from an account that no longer exists. Learn more
- Few people know that George Orwell’s first draft of “1984” was about a publishing house canceling a book contract
- But you can win an election by telling voters that their imaginary concerns are realYou can't win an election by telling voters that their concerns are imaginary.
- I'd compare this to Chinese propaganda, which can be very tone-deaf. But not even Xi Jinping would, on visiting the area of a mass-killing tragedy, release only images of himself being showered with adulation, set to soaring musicMy time spent in Dayton and El Paso with some of the greatest people on earth. Thank you for a job well done!
00:00 - Firing a US Attorney for not helping you overturn an election would, on its own, have led to impeachment in the past. This week it was just Monday
- China’s vaccine diplomacy appears to be not just about promoting its own vaccine, but also irresponsibly spreading scare stories about the (much more effective) Pfizer vaccine
