NotableViolence isn’t power. Someone should tell Trump. “The Trump administration, however, has shown nothing but contempt for the patient work of building durable power based on consensus, preferring the blitzkrieg of violence.” — Lydia Polgreen, Opinion columnist We’ve become too savage for ‘Lord of the Flies.’ “We were different once, really different, and by wrestling with those differences we could be different again, really.” — Junot Díaz, professor of creative writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Is the U.S. ready for firing squad executions? “Americans will then finally have to decide what we can tolerate, after decades in which we have been able to pretend that we can kill people without a cost — to our executioners and to our own sense of ourselves.” — Maurice Chammah, staff writer at The Marshall Project Spotlight
This Is How America Can Build More HousingTo fix the housing crisis, the editorial board writes, we re-examine basic economic principles. ICYMIYou aren’t crazy. The world is actually getting weirder. “The enduring human instinct to believe in the otherworldly declined as empiricism, common evidentiary standards and, for the shortest period of all, mass media produced a rough consensus about what was real. Now we seem to be sliding back.” — Katya Ungerman, an internet culture writer More in OpinionIn Your WordsRe: “Stop Looking for an ‘Offramp’ in Iran” Offramp? How can we get to an offramp when the highway is choked with tanker traffic? There’s no offramp here. The best we can hope for is a return to status quo. And it looks like even that is going to take a resumption of hostilities. If we want to avoid offramps in the future, we should elect a president who knows how to drive. — A comment posted by Carmine & Friends from In Town Read more comments on the story here and check out our Letters to the Editor. We hope you’ve enjoyed this newsletter, which is made possible through subscriber support. Subscribe to The New York Times.
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