There Is No Right To Work In

As Thrilling As It Was, Speechwriting Is Ultimately Frustrating For Someone Who Wants To Be A Writer.

If We Say Something Often Enough, We Come To Believe It. We Don't Usually Delude Others Until After We Have First Deluded Ourselves.

One Of The Great Drivers Of The Alienation That Has Made Donald Trump Possible Is That The Growth In The American Economy Has Been Weak. In The Decade From 2005 To 2015, There Was Not One Year When The Us Hit Three Per Cent Growth. And To The Extent There's Been Growth, Virtually All Of It Has Been Collected By The Top 10 Per Cent Of The Population. Obviously, If We Knew How To Make Growth Faster, We Would. We Don't. And It's Very Difficult To Make Growth More Broadly Shared. Because It's Not Just The Us That Has This Problem.

Civil Unrest, Civil Turmoil Is Not A Challenge To President Trump. It's A Resource For Him. He Needs To Create An Image Of A Polarized Country In Which The People Who Are Against Him Are Somehow Alien Or Anti-system.

Journalism Can Go Right Up To The Door Of The Room In Which The Decisions Are Made. A Novel Can Go Inside The Room - And Inside The Character's Heads.