I’ve been considering reading Jill Biden’s book and even have a copy. I think Vahaken, our literary editor, just moved it to a different pile in my mess of decent intentions, however. He writes in his assessment of View from the East Wing:
The Russian invasion of Ukraine gets a chapterlet, about four double-spaced pages: a requirement for this memoir-writing class. Hamas’s barbarism against world Jewry gets even fewer. Soon after October 2023, Dr. B decides that Israel has gone too far and leaves a Post-it note on the president’s bathroom mirror. “Net has to stop.” The book is a war of attrition against the senses.
The Ohio Republican has joined with Elizabeth Warren to propose one of the largest tax increases in American history, a violation of his anti-tax pledge.
Trump’s immigration policies may play hardball, but in two cases, the Court found that the plain meaning of the law written by Congress is on his side.
