Tom Nichols

By the way, for the Russians, one thing that I think some of the better reports have focused on, but that has been glossed over in all of the jubilation, Putin for years made his name by saying, if you're a friend of mine, you don't go down. I don't let that happen. My friends don't get pushed out of power. And this time, this happens like in, you know, 72 hours. And Putin's like, well...

What are you going to do? You know, I'm busy. That stinks. That's a big black market. Unfortunately, and I'm going to bring this back to American politics. Unfortunately, instead of being able to, you know, really hold on the pressure and keep pushing back the Russian position in Ukraine and, you know, in other parts of the world, he's going to get a respite now, which is really unfortunate.

What are you going to do? You know, I'm busy. That stinks. That's a big black market. Unfortunately, and I'm going to bring this back to American politics. Unfortunately, instead of being able to, you know, really hold on the pressure and keep pushing back the Russian position in Ukraine and, you know, in other parts of the world, he's going to get a respite now, which is really unfortunate.

What are you going to do? You know, I'm busy. That stinks. That's a big black market. Unfortunately, and I'm going to bring this back to American politics. Unfortunately, instead of being able to, you know, really hold on the pressure and keep pushing back the Russian position in Ukraine and, you know, in other parts of the world, he's going to get a respite now, which is really unfortunate.

But I'm glad it happened before Trump came into office.

But I'm glad it happened before Trump came into office.

But I'm glad it happened before Trump came into office.

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Well, here is my darkest thought. It is my Christmas wish that something alleviates it. When I wrote books about expertise and the decline of democracy in America, I focused pretty heavily on narcissism. What I regret is that I didn't talk more about something that I'm coming to realize is really destroying the country, and that is the epidemic of loneliness.

Well, here is my darkest thought. It is my Christmas wish that something alleviates it. When I wrote books about expertise and the decline of democracy in America, I focused pretty heavily on narcissism. What I regret is that I didn't talk more about something that I'm coming to realize is really destroying the country, and that is the epidemic of loneliness.

Well, here is my darkest thought. It is my Christmas wish that something alleviates it. When I wrote books about expertise and the decline of democracy in America, I focused pretty heavily on narcissism. What I regret is that I didn't talk more about something that I'm coming to realize is really destroying the country, and that is the epidemic of loneliness.

And the problem where that intersects with the Internet is when you are lonely and isolated, the Internet is this wonderland, this carnival, this theme park that you can just wander through. You know, the days where a kid got radicalized by reading Catcher in the Rye or, you know, I don't know, you know, pick your, you know, the

And the problem where that intersects with the Internet is when you are lonely and isolated, the Internet is this wonderland, this carnival, this theme park that you can just wander through. You know, the days where a kid got radicalized by reading Catcher in the Rye or, you know, I don't know, you know, pick your, you know, the

And the problem where that intersects with the Internet is when you are lonely and isolated, the Internet is this wonderland, this carnival, this theme park that you can just wander through. You know, the days where a kid got radicalized by reading Catcher in the Rye or, you know, I don't know, you know, pick your, you know, the

anarchist cookbook or whatever it was at least had to go to a bookstore had to walk through a library had to do something as opposed to just sitting in the dark alone isolated in your room and saying i'm a teenager i'm troubled i have issues oh look turkish nazis something that you probably you know 30 years ago if you lived in wisconsin you were not going to be really

anarchist cookbook or whatever it was at least had to go to a bookstore had to walk through a library had to do something as opposed to just sitting in the dark alone isolated in your room and saying i'm a teenager i'm troubled i have issues oh look turkish nazis something that you probably you know 30 years ago if you lived in wisconsin you were not going to be really

anarchist cookbook or whatever it was at least had to go to a bookstore had to walk through a library had to do something as opposed to just sitting in the dark alone isolated in your room and saying i'm a teenager i'm troubled i have issues oh look turkish nazis something that you probably you know 30 years ago if you lived in wisconsin you were not going to be really

you know aware of able to encounter and so that one thing that we know from research about extremist groups is that they are reaching out across boundaries to feel like they're bigger than they are to say i mean the way i always put it is every town has one guy who thinks that aliens are stealing our water right problem is if you have a thousand towns and the one guy in each town reaches others well there's a thousand of us now we're we're a union we're a movement