Scott Stossel
@SStossel
National Editor, The Atlantic. Author of My Age of Anxiety and Sarge. Retweets mean "this is interesting," not necessarily "I agree with it."
"In keeping with the values of local police, the federal government should prohibit the wearing of masks by its officers & require them to properly identify themselves. These are the minimal requirements of policing a free state"--longtime NYPD officer theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"America is witnessing a remaking of the American presidency into something closer to a dictatorship. Trump is enacting this change...but he is not the inventor of its claim to constitutional legitimacy. That project is the work of John Roberts." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"Sometimes people sound guilty even if they aren’t, especially government officials. Still, whatever probability you had in your mind that the Epstein files contain damaging material, you should probably raise it after listening to Trump yesterday" theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"One thing that’s helpful in a crisis is steady leadership. Unfortunately, disaster-stricken Americans are stuck with Kristi Noem instead." theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
"When asked what he would do if Putin escalated the violence further, Trump refused to answer—and, perhaps tellingly, snapped at the reporter. 'Don’t ask me a question like that.'" theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
"The Epstein matter is so crucial to Trump’s base, and the excuse offered is so flimsy, that the about-face has raised questions within perhaps the most gullible movement in American history." theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
"Trump and his administration invited conspiracy theories into the White House. Now they’re going to have a hard time getting them out." theatlantic.com/technology/arc…
"We cry plastic tears, leak plastic breast milk, and ejaculate plastic semen." theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
The highbrow “is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea. That is why I have always been so proud to be called highbrow...If I could be more of a highbrow I would"--Virginia Woolf. theatlantic.com/newsletters/ar…
Alasdair Macintyre, Ryne Sandberg, and the Failures of the Enlightenment (and the even-worse failures of post-liberalism): theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"How is it that half of America looks at Donald Trump and doesn’t find him morally repellent? He lies, cheats, steals, betrays, and behaves cruelly and corruptly, and more than 70 million Americans find him, at the very least, morally acceptable. " theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"The public-health profession can go on pretending it knows how to cure every social ill, but it will never earn back the public’s respect unless it returns to its original principles. It needs to choose evidence over ideology—and humility over hubris." theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
“I’ve just never liked bullies, and I don’t understand people who do. It’s really not that hard. I wish more people would see that it’s not hard to stand up.” The Democrats have a punk-rock solution to their masculinity problem: The Dropkick Murphys. theatlantic.com/culture/archiv…
Fantastic essay by the incomparable Jennifer Senior on insomnia, hers and America's. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
