This week, as I’ve read about the confirmations of the next Education Secretary and US Attorney General, I’ve thought to myself: “It’s going to be a long four years if we don’t get used to losing.” News about this administration has a pattern already: the left fears, and mobilizes its networks, and plans actions; and […]
A second look at failure
One of the tools I’ve been using this week to cope with the steady stream of chaotic political news is playing with scales of distance and time: How many light-years between Earth and—oh, I don’t know—Pegasus. How long human history is. How short recorded history is in relation to the age of the Earth. How […]