The Times We Live In
Tea party favorite and conservative broadcaster Glenn Beck addresses his "Restoring Honor" event on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 2010 in Washington, DC (Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images)
In my email inbox this morning, I found a sponsored blast from the conservative site, Townhall.com:
Washington is conspiring with China’s leaders to destroy the value of every dollar you earn, spend, save and invest.
The quoted material comes from an ad selling financial advice.
When future historians try to recapture our moment, they'll be making a big mistake if they follow actual news and real-life events. Millions of Americans have lived these past years in a nightmare hallucination. Fox News offers windows into this alternative emotional reality—which of course Fox has helped to engineer as well—but only a window. The truth of our times as experienced by many people is best captured in these emailed newsletters, fragments of Internet flotsam, that present a United States governed by fathomless malignancy and treachery. How to retell that story in all its luridness?
The answer to that question is the reason my next book is a novel, not a history.
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David Frum
David Frum is a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Daily Beast and a CNN contributor. He is the author of seven books, including most recently, his first novel Patriots published in April 2012.
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