Before we go all in on this new one, it would be nice if the desirability of building new nukes in a hurry were thoughtfully discussed. Good luck with that. There’s some serous FOMO involved.
Sports outcomes apparently are the new frontier for presidential power freed from the rules-based global order that the U.S. had largely created and sustained.
A commission has adopted a technique George Orwell identified in his 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language” — using reassuring words to make policies that might otherwise face resistance seem natural, inevitable, even benevolent. The wall of separation becomes adversarial, divisive, hostile to cooperation. The bridge becomes open, connecting, positive.
