Tuesday, May 23, 2017

"The Agogment Rate"

Does the rate of scandal erode the weight of scandal — and is there a mathematical expression for this thought? Will the swirl of fiascos finally settle into a fixed impression of the president, even among some of his reflexive supporters? Or is it more like what Dostoyevsky has Raskolnikov say in “Crime and Punishment”: “Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!”?

Bret Stephens, The New York Times, May 23, 2017

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