Friday, January 30, 2026
2019 A continuous 24-hour church service lasting 97 days to prevent deportation of Armenian asylum seekers ended after Dutch authorities relented at the Protestant Bethel Church in The Hague
2019 An approaching polar vortex prompted a state of emergency to be declared in Wisconsin and other states. US Postal Service suspended deliveries to ten states
In bed at 9:40. awake at 5:25, up at 5:52. 7/-5/18/7. Snow around 10.
Meds, etc. Morning meds at a.m.
The State of the Union: titles of NYTimes opinion pieces this morning;
The Rot goes deeper than ICE, Ben Rhodes
Time to say goodbye, David Brooks
The fathomless resentment of Tucker Carlson, Michelle Goldberg
This Moment Is Asking What Kind of America We Are. You might not like the answer, Lydia Polgreen
The Polls Are Clear. Americans Don’t Want This. Kristen Soltis
How the World Sees America, With Adam Tooze, Ezra Klein
There’s this quote from the Italian theorist Antonio Gramsci that has been making the rounds a lot over the past few years. It goes, “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear. There’s also a looser translation of that last line that you hear sometimes: “Now is the time of monsters.”
It sure feels like the time of monsters. It sure feels like a time of morbid symptoms. In our last episode, we talked about how Davos last week seemed to be this wake-up moment for the world when Mark Carney, the prime minister of Canada, said in his speech, “We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.” You then turn on the TV, and you watch agents of the American government killing protesters on the streets of Minneapolis.
I cannot think of a week when it has felt clearer that not just the old order is dying but that the old order is dead. I cannot think of a week when it has been more obvious that there are monsters.
From the Wall Street Journal:
America Needs Restraint—and Facts, Peggy Noonan
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