Donald Trump’s haunting obsession with disfigurement in the democracy. The blood-and-soil nationalist movement in the United States is led by a real estate developer who’s oddly less interested in the soil. Obsessions with gore, disfigurement and death run through Trump’s rallies, public appearances and record of governance. While national conservatism marches against impurities in America’s…

Listen to journalists. A lot of people didn’t like my last newsletter, in which I laid out in detail why canceling subscriptions to the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times over Endorsementgate 2024 was more likely to hurt journalists at those publications than teach their irresponsible billionaire owners a lesson. Well, look. I didn’t…

Toward a more pro-journalist approach to being pissed off. The decisions of billionaires Jeff Bezos and Patrick Soon-Shiong to cancel planned endorsements of Kamala Harris (along with the overwhelming lack of candor about the actual motives for doing so) has prompted many engaged news consumers to cancel their subscriptions to the Washington Post and Los…