She didn't know any of those things, he said, and now she knew all of them.

Tuesday newsletter

I wrote last week, by way of offering some kind of reassuring comfort about the dire state of things, that although Putin and Boris and Trump might still be around a year from now, they very likely wouldn't be here in 10 years.

But what constitutes reassurance, exactly? Reader John Farrell wrote I don't even know if I'll still be here in 10 years…

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