792 ‘Amnesia Was Our Preferred State’
I am really trying not to write about the U.S. elections, but I’ll make an exception for Joan Didion, my favorite living American journalist:
Audio via The New York Review of Books. I stopped listening to the other audio clips after I heard Mark Danner’s unintentional parody of a moaning New York intellectual: “We are in the depths of a quadrennial phase which I’m going to call the time of Democratic fear and loathing.” You can’t make this stuff up.
While you’re there, see Peter Galbraith on Iraq: “George W. Bush has put the United States on the side of undemocratic Iraqis who are Iran’s allies. John McCain would continue the same approach. It is hard to understand how this can be called a successor a path to victory.”
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