I don't think anyone is doing well.

In Australia, but with family and friends in the US. That gives me a different perspective and the option of turning away whenever I need to, at least until Trump comes for us too.

For those in the US, t's matter of constructing a life that makes as few concessions as possible to the dictatorship and the…

JS Mill also relevant here. At least as perceived from the West/North, the gap between "civilised" and "savage/backward" peoples was never greater than in the long 19th century.A genuinely cosmopolitan view was intellectually almost unattainable.