David Wallace-Wells
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Sep
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The Opinions · ‘Platner Is Vile.’ McConnell Is Missing. Welcome to American Politics. · 11 Jul 2026
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There's never going to be a Gen X, President David.
No, I can't.
But I think part of the story here is just what it means when older people stay in power, hold on to power.
They're going to be more secretive because the things that they're trying to hide are more serious.
And the public is going to be...
more agitated about those, that secret keeping, because they suspect rightly that these are genuine, important questions to ask.
And, you know, I don't think that like we should be, you know, launching a congressional investigation into the bruising on Donald Trump's hand, but it is an enormous area of like internet obsession that he has this bruise on us, this running bruise on his hand.
It would just be better if we had, I mean, better in a million ways of telling
Trump was not the president, but even keeping, even putting that aside, it would just be better if we didn't have to worry all the time that our geriatric leaders were sliding down, you know, the slope to real old age.
The book that I've been reading the last few days is a book called In Trees by a writer named Robert Moore, which I cannot recommend highly enough.
It's a sort of a strange book to describe in summary, but it's part nature essay.
It's part work of philosophy.
It's part personal essay.
And it's an...
effort to make sense of the tree not just you know the forest landscape but the idea of a tree the intellectual structure of a tree what it means to think through the metaphor of the tree um as a sort of new model for thinking about rootedness and um what we used to call cathedral thinking that is to say things that outlast human life um it's a beautiful book it's impossible to put down and
Ever since I picked it up, I've been recommending it to everyone I know.
So I'll recommend it to all of you as well.
I can't wait to hear what you're going to recommend.
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