NP - Fintan O'Toole

[Charles Albert]

His regular contribution to NYRB can be accessed for free, I think.

It's worth figuring out...

*In “The Jesting of Arlington Stringham,” a story by Saki (H.H. Munro), the
eponymous politician in a debate on the Foreign Office in the House of
Commons remarks that “the people of Crete unfortunately make more history
than they can consume locally.” The United States is experiencing the same
excess. More outrage is being perpetrated and felt than can be contained
within the existing frame of institutions and discourses.*

It's what "Opinion" might be were we not elevating and celebrating the
banality of Friedman, Dowd, and the unconscionably awful Bobo Samuelson.


love,

cfa