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A Nation Unmade by War

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A recent UN report estimates that, in 2015, a record 65 million people were uprooted, mainly in the Greater Middle East. — location: 249 ^ref-39789

a search of UC Santa Barbara’s exhaustive presidential records library finds that no president from 1981 to today uttered the phrase “American exceptionalism” except Obama. — location: 316 ^ref-45278

Few bothered to consider the ways in which the foundations of authoritarianism had already been laid in this society—and not by disaffected working-class white men either. Or what it meant to have a national security state and a massive military machine deeply embedded in our ruling city and our American world. — location: 737 ^ref-3915

The news increasingly does several things: 1.It creates its own heightened, insular world to replace the world we actually live in. — location: 946 ^ref-64608

At its most effective, it’s like a recurrent floodtide washing over you. 3.It has an obsessional quality, with single stories engulfing everything else, inducing a deeply skewed view of the world, no matter what event or events are being followed. Who can doubt that the Internet, social media, email, and the rest of the package are the signature addictive activities of our age? — location: 948 ^ref-3232