Personal News
Sorry for the month-long absence. Work, parenting, the resistance, and other commitments can make regular posting difficult. With that said, I’m delighted to tell you that as of this week, I am now a weekly political columnist for the wonderful on-line publication, Dame Magazine. My column is called State of Disunion and my inaugural piece was published yesterday. You can find it here:
Here’s an excerpt:
And yet Trump’s corruption goes even deeper than this. He has debased the very office of the presidency, turning it into a platform from which to pursue his own petty, personal grievances — typically in the form of uncreative, infantile insults and flagrant lies. But in addition to the cringe-inducing spectacle of his puerility and lack of impulse control, Trump has also deployed the full weight of his office to attack and damage individual, private citizens, government employees, journalists, other public officials, broad classes of people based on their race, national origin, and religion, and American businesses. His conduct has been not only unseemly and unwarranted, but utterly disgraceful, vicious, abusive, and grotesque. This is its own form of corruption: his weaponization of the government against U.S. citizens and the vulnerable merely because he thinks he can.
I hope you enjoy it and will share it on Twitter and FB! You can follow me @RAlperstein
I will also continue to post on this blog. I actually hope the regularity of a shorter, weekly column will make me more disciplined about completing the many longer pieces that I’ve been working on for Voluble.
Thank you for reading!
