In the Donald Trump era — praise be! — so much is possible that previously no one had ever even imagined. For instance, not only has “the late, great Hannibal Lecter” come back to life, he might even join Trump’s cabinet.Well, that’s just a guess, but why not? I think he’d fit right in. All of…

I stare blankly at the news. Little men with guns once again stir the country – the world – into a state of shock and grief and chaos. Attention: Every last one of us is vulnerable to being eliminated . . . randomly,On Saturday, Dec. 13, there’s a classroom shooting at Brown University, in…

“Kill them all!”You have a problem with that? What are you, some kind of unmanly wimp? Pete Hegseth spits in your face.Let me catch my breath, calm myself, wipe my face. The cutting edge is raw. A hundred deaths, a thousand deaths, quickly turn into “collateral damage.” But the killing of two…

I dedicate this question, which is at the core of the book with which I am struggling, to Donald Trump.When we think of power, the word itself commands that we carve the concept into something isolated and wieldable: a sword, a gun, a scepter. Power means power over. There is no basic concept of…