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Monthly Archives: June 2020
Masking and the Self-Inflicted Wounds of Expertise
A broken clock tells the time accurately twice a day, but Donald Trump tells the truth even less often than that. Never on purpose and rarely even by accident. And yet he told an accidental truth recently, one that doesn’t … Continue reading