I Think We Should Be Alarmed, Watchful,

A.j. Liebling, One Of My Heroes, Used To Say That He Could Write Better Than Anyone Who Wrote Faster, And Faster Than Anyone Who Could Write Better. I'm One Nine-hundredth As Good As Liebling, But That Principle May Slightly Apply.

On 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.

We Have To Do Our Jobs Better, More Tirelessly And Stop Whining About It.

Trump's Election Is Part Of An International Trend That's No Less Alarming, In Britain, In France, In Germany, In Austria. Vladimir Putin Wanted To See This Outcome No Less Than He Would Like To See Nationalists And Anti-europeanists Win In France.

I Know, Too, That Millions And Millions Of People Voted For Trump Not Because They Are Cartoon Racists, But Because They Did Not Like Hillary Clinton For A Variety Of Reasons, Because They Had Real Economic And Social Grievances.