Perhaps the most far-reaching damage to the American polity from the Trump era is the final destruction of journalism’s traditional ideals of objectivity and fairness in reporting the news. Writing in City Journal, Martin Gurri argues that the mainstream media have adopted a “post-journalism” business model: acting as unapologetic advocates for the various creeds, dogmas, and ideologies of the left.
A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”
