Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly protest the extinction.
David RemnickDonald Trump seems to think it is within his rights to trample the First Amendment, to disdain the press, to punish protesters or flag-burners, to ban ethnic categories of immigrants, and so on.
David RemnickI don't know that Donald Trump is anything more to Putin than what Lenin called a poleznye durak, a useful idiot.
David RemnickI am an adult; deliberately naïve, dewy-eyed optimism is not the proper posture for a responsible adult, is it?
David RemnickOn Facebook, a lie can seem as convincing to some as an article from SPIEGEL or the Washington Post. That's a problem. I can then like it and like it again and start creating my own media universe, both for me and for my friends, and so we become more and more fenced off from one another.
David Remnick