Readers respond to a column by David Brooks, “The Rot Creeping Into Our Minds.” Also: Republican election stunts.
The first step is to understand how these attacks on critical thinking take place.

America, the Juvenile

The Trump administration is a regime of troubled grade-schoolers.
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