Christine Emba

2 months ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Shadi Hamid |Sean Monahan |Christine Emba |Mana Afsari

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -45:28Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. “Something is happening here and you don’t know what it is,” goes the Bob Dylan track from 1965. That song was directed at the squares who weren’t yet hip to the Sixties. It sounded foreboding then, and it sounds foreboding now, because something is happening, again — something perhaps as great and consequential as the cultural changes of Dylan’s time.

2 months ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Shadi Hamid |Tyler Cowen |Christine Emba

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -49:32Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. “I am done saying, ‘impossible’,” announces . At least, with regard to what Trump might do or could do in the near future. We are still in the midst of a major shakeup in the administrative state. The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is combing through Treasury data and cutting government personnel. Trump is delaying the distribution of federal funds.

2 months ago | open.substack.com | Damir Marusic |Shadi Hamid |Tyler Cowen |Christine Emba

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -49:32Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. “I am done saying, ‘impossible’,” announces . At least, with regard to what Trump might do or could do in the near future. We are still in the midst of a major shakeup in the administrative state. The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) is combing through Treasury data and cutting government personnel. Trump is delaying the distribution of federal funds.

2 months ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Christine Emba |Tyler Cowen |Sohrab Ahmari

I’ve had a horrible cold for the past week, which has made processing recent events in DC even more disorienting and surreal than it was already bound to be. I went to bed congested and woke up to the US feuding with Canada. Just kidding, we’ve actually moved on to turning the Gaza Strip into beachside condos. The day before, we shuttered USAID.

2 months ago | wisdomofcrowds.live | Damir Marusic |Shadi Hamid |Christine Emba

Current time: 0:00 / Total time: -47:06Audio playback is not supported on your browser. Please upgrade. “The weird right wing men are coming out to the fore in joy,” announces . “They’re strutting more than they did in 2016,” observes . “The counter-elite is becoming the elite,” says Shadi. “There is gonna be a bloodbath,” says Damir: “They will soon be drinking from a fire hydrant of sewage.”Two weeks have passed since the Trump inauguration, as well as its attendant galas, balls and parties.