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In reply to jrholt1236. Fixed. LikeLike

Oh crud. Proofread error: zoon politikon CAN be translated as ‘political’ or ‘social,’ depending on context. (See Liddell-Scott Lexicon). LikeLike

Irfan, your response is, as usual, lucid and compelling. I also find the Atlantic essays by Appelbaum and Packer—two favorite commentators—to be powerful and true. Your focus on the medical experts—the people who know what’s going on as opposed to the …

Another update. https://www.nj.com/essex/2020/04/mets-pitcher-sends-a-heartfelt-to-nj-police-officer-hospitalized-with-coronavirus.html LikeLike

In reply to jrholt1236. I can’t deny that the risks are there. But the uncertainties from having him in charge are risks, too. I don’t think Navarro would go for this. Pence, Pompeo, et al would absolutely not. But my thought is that the pe…

Irfan, I hesitate to agree with you because of the high risk involved. There would have to be very strong support from the career civil servants (the necessary bureaucracy in any modern state), which Trump has with invidious intent characterized as “th…

In reply to jrholt1236. All good points, undeniably true. I am suggesting that what needs to happen is a kind of mutiny. I think it’s telling that Trump himself referenced “Mutiny on the Bounty“; a psychoanalyst would have a field day…

A square tablecloth spread on a rectangular table will hang from the table edges same as before if the cloth is rotated ninety degrees lying on the table. A rectangular cloth not square—a cloth made longer in one length, shorter in the other—will require two rotations of ninety degrees to hang from the table edges…