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The always brilliant and astounding Martin Gurri: These recent episodes are symptoms of a mass decline in America into unreason—bordering, at times, on a psychotic breakdown. Strange fantasies have overwhelmed reality: it’s an age of delusion, impossible longings, and ritual self-mutilation. The causes are many and complex, but the syndrome deserves a name. I’m going…

Guadalupe River State Park between Spring Branch and Bulverde, Texas I just needed a little peace after all this excitement and before the great, national nervous breakdown.

Elon Musk: “The interest payments on the debt exceed the defense department budget of a trillion dollars a year, and that is rising rapidly. There have to be quite radical reductions in costs. If, please Lord, Trump wins and the Department of Government Efficiency happens, we will be very open and transparent. Here are the…