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Things I Was Thinking AboutWhile The Impeachment News Cycle Spun Round & Round
- The total disruption of the seasons and the mass extinction of marine life and insects.
- How much money is wasted on bureaucrats.
- How even wealthy, well-educated high-schoolers can’t write a complete sentence and never read.
- Wildfires in California — which are not even news anymore because they are perpetual.
- British elections — which may determine the next 20 years of trans-Atlantic and European politics.
- Basketball.
- The history of Weimar Republic.
- Protests in Lebanon.
- The absolute annihilation of free thought at the hands of smartphones.
- Not only the loss of community, but the loss of the memory of community in American (un)civic life.
- A Hidden Life, the next Terrance Malick movie.
- My next book.
- Camille Paglia’s Sexual Personae, which I’m reading for the first time, long overdue.
- The self-censoring of American university life.
- Lots of other stuff.
