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The Treachery, the Idiocy

Posted 1/13/20

To the Editor: In 1961 Philip Roth wrote about the difficulty a writer has “trying to understand and then describe, and then make credible much of the American reality. It stupefies, it sickens, it infuriates, and finally, it is even a kind of embarrassment to one’s own meager imagination…The daily newspapers…fill me with wonder and awe…the fixes, the scandals, the insanities, the treacheries, the idiocies, the lies, the pieties, the noise…”

That was then. What about now?

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