Nicholas Clairmont

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  • Mar 24, 2026
    In The Image, his landmark 1962 book about how mass media was warping American life, historian Daniel Boorstin coined the term pseudo-event to describe something that...
  • Mar 4, 2026
    There is a famous quote attributed to Leon Trotsky to the effect of: “You may not be interested in the war, but war is interested in you.”
  • Feb 18, 2026
    “Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien,” wrote Voltaire, usually translated to “the perfect is the enemy of the good,” and more often rendered in the imperative...