The Trump Administration and the Future of Science and Democracy

Five years ago, you said something that feels sadly prescient. You describe democracy, science and journalism as three valuable institutions. In different places and in different times, each of these pillars cracked and sometime s fell. We should not be so arrogant as to believe that we're so much smarter or nobler, ah, that somehow we're immune from this,. That was five years ago. And the trumpt administration was getting off the ground. I it, unfortunately, lived up my fears.