ISMAIL LAGARDIEN: Look to intellectuals to make sense of Trump’s illusions and truths
Scholars have the onerous task of making sense of the US president-elect’s foolish utterances
08 January 2025 - 05:00
There’s a theorem that did my head in several years ago, during those foolish months and years when I audited classes in physics to escape from fear.
It took too much time and effort to think about the theorem seriously. I should add, though, that it makes sense only if you want it to make sense, and even if you believe it holds water it could take eternity for it to come true. ..
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