The Optimality Thesis: Why America Doesn’t Need a Smart President

In Ed West’s viral post, “Doomscrolling ourselves to death,” the contrast between Truman and Trump is interesting: Marriott contrasts Harry Truman, who ruled America during the peak of literacy, with the current incumbent. Truman ‘was the son of a livestock dealer in Independence, Missouri. And yet as an earnest and bespectacled schoolboy he spent great… Continue reading The Optimality Thesis: Why America Doesn’t Need a Smart President