This Week and Next: America on Life Support

The billionaire squeeze on democracy and what to do about it.

When I first conceived of “This Week and Next,” I hadn’t quite appreciated its latent optimism. These days, “next week” feels less like a promise than a provisional arrangement.

This dispatch will be brief—I’ve got several pieces in various stages of combustion, including the second installment of the Adelson saga (part one here) and something rather more personal. Watch this space.

As for last week: a catastrophe, though not the Melania variety, despite my having written about it (read it here) I declined to watch it. For those seeking an actual review, the Atlantic has you covered (read it here).

I have no wish to become a radical. That, I suspect, is precisely what they want—the spectacle of opposition, the satisfying theater of a fight. But passivity is its own form of complicity, and I cannot abide it.

What, then, is one to do?

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