Trump Must Be Held Accountable

Plus: Jelani Cobb on Georgia and the insurrectionists; Facebook’s Trump ban; and Tony Rice’s acoustic guitar. View in browser | Update your preferences Our Columnists Trump Must Be Held Accountable If he remains unpunished, Trump’s antidemocratic, violent movement will persist in mainstream American culture. By Benjamin Wallace-Wells Daily Comment Georgia, Trump’s Insurrectionists, and Lost Causes In the name of preserving democracy, the G.O.P. and its febrile leader have subverted it—and, thanks to Trump’s behavior, the world now knows it. By Jelani Cobb Daily Comment How Social Media Made the Trump Mob a Reality Facebook banned the President from its platform on Thursday, but the move was too little, too late. By Andrew Marantz Our Columnists The World Shook as America Raged America’s rivals cited the chaos at the Capitol as a sign that America has forfeited its claim to be a political model or world leader. By Robin Wright From the Archive Annals of War An American Soldier in Vietnam From 1988: an excerpt from “A Bright Shining Lie,” which won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on the Vietnam War. Its author, who died on Thursday, had changed the course of the war in the previous decade with his coverage of the leaked Pentagon Papers. By Neil Sheehan Culture and More Under Review Science’s Demons, from Descartes to Darwin and Beyond How supernatural conceptions have advanced our understanding of the natural universe. By Casey Cep Postscript The Matchless Acoustic Guitar of Tony Rice The bluegrass musician had a towering technique and a severe and idiosyncratic ear. By Alec Wilkinson The Current Cinema Performances of Unstinting Ardor Electrify “Pieces of a Woman” In Kornél Mundruczó’s film about the aftermath of a home-birth calamity, Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn create an unforgettable impression. By Anthony Lane Humor from The New Yorker Daily Shouts One Writer’s Year in Pandemic Think Pieces The Pandemic Beard: Is It Actually Working for Us, or Are We Kidding Ourselves? By Craig Thomas Daily Cartoon Friday, January 8th By Tim Hamilton This e-mail was sent to you by The New Yorker. To insure delivery, we recommend adding newyorker@newsletters.newyorker.com, to your contacts, while noting that it is a no-reply address. Please send all newsletter feedback to tnyinbox@newyorker.com. For more from The New Yorker, sign up for our newsletters, shop the store, and sign in to newyorker.com, where subscribers always have unlimited access. Contact us with questions. View our Privacy Policy Unsubscribe Copyright © Condé Nast 2020. One World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007. All rights reserved.