Forgotten People: Trump the populist
Tuesday 31 January 2017
Trump’s inaugural address ...
President Trump is so unusual, so unexpected and so wayward that most of us are having trouble finding the right responses to him. It is as if a bull had invaded a china shop, and then turns out to be a pig in bull’s clothing, and then begins speaking Mandarin - backwards. And yet our intuitions are very much alert....
Trump and the climate: trying to understand what Trump really means
Sunday 29 January 2017
The whole world, it seems, has felt some degree of alarm about what has happened in America. But this intuitive sense of danger comes with a hint of impotence because it’s not easy to say exactly what is going on there, and where it will go next. Without this diagnostic kind of understanding, we can’t get to work figuring out what we should be doing...