“Freedom,” wrote George Orwell in Nineteen Eighty-Four, “is the freedom to say two plus two make four. Once that is granted, all else follows.” But what if the test is whether a president can add two and two and get in the neighborhood of four? What if the president says 2+2=10,000? Is that close enough […]
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by Garrett Epps

