The New Yorker (February 14)
“Trump’s defense was an insult to the impeachment proceedings and an assault on reason…. Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial was an artifact of his Presidency. It was a battle of meaning against noise, against nothing-means-anything-and-everything-is-the-same nihilism—and nihilism won.”
Tags: Assault, Defense, Impeachment, Insult, Meaning, Nihilism, Noise, Proceedings, Reason, Trump
Wall Street Journal (May 26)
Populist, anti-EU candidates did well in the recent election for European Parliament. Nowhere more so than France where Marine Le Pen’s National Front party swept by both the Socialists and the Gaullists. Compared with “the milder populist advances elsewhere in the European vote, France produced a spectacle of nihilism that damages the West and delights Vladimir Putin.”
Tags: Anti-EU, Candidates, Damage, Election, European Parliament, France, Gaullists, Marine Le Pen, National Front, Nihilism, Populist, Socialists, Vladimir Putin, West
