![]() Fact: According to a recently published paper by researchers at New York University, a tweet is 20 percent more likely to be retweeted for every moral-emotional word (such as “hate”) it uses. ![]() His tweets - hasty, crude, and error-strewn - are just one symptom of a more general decline in civility that online social media have encouraged. ![]() On the contrary, he is the incarnation of the spirit of our age. In this, unfortunately, he is not abnormal in the least. The problem is that, in his incorrigible crassness, the president consistently drowns out the signal of meaningful policy achievement with deafening yet inconsequential noise. In the Middle East, meanwhile, ISIS has been defeated and, as part of an astounding revolution from above, the Saudi Crown Prince has turned on the jihadists. China must act, or the United States will. And, though I have my doubts about adding to the deficit, respectable economists insist that the Republican tax bill will benefit not just the rich but also working- and middle-class families, by boosting investment and growth - and that the Trump administration’s push to reduce burdensome regulation will have even more positive effects.Īs for foreign policy, the moment of truth in the North Korean Missile Crisis draws ever nearer, following Kim Jong Un’s long-range missile test last week. The stock market is at record highs - up nearly a quarter since Trump’s election. But the US economy is growing at around 3.5 percent, according to Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and New York. The Democrats are ahead in the polls with reasonable shot at electoral success next year. Fewer than 40 percent of Americans approve of the president. Unlike Bret, however, I don’t think Trump is failing. Like Stephens, I don’t think Trump is nuts - not as nuts as King George, at any rate. Far from being mad, he argues, Trump is cunningly exploiting the power of social media to drive his political opponents into their own form of madness, to mobilize his loyal supporters in Middle America - who love all this - and to distract everyone else’s attention from all that is going wrong on his watch. The Scrivener's Bones is the second book in this action-packed fantasy series for young readers.Īt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.The counterargument to all this comes from my good friend Bret Stephens. After being all heroic and stuff in that tale, I didn’t expect to charge headlong into enemy territory: the Library of Alexandria, where I-and my grandpa and my grouchy bodyguard Bastille and her even grouchier mother and some weirdly gifted cousins-would face the Curators (ghosts who will gladly help you check out a book as long as you don’t mind giving up your mortal soul) and some new nasty Librarians who hate our guts.and would be happy to rip them out for us.īut none of that comes close to the horror we would have to face if we succeeded in finding what we were searching for… So now you’ve read all about me, Alcatraz Smedry, and how I was swept out of my life in your normal world and into the fight against the Librarians (jerks!). #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn series Brandon Sanderson continues the epic adventure he began in Alcatraz vs.
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