After 9/11, President George W. Bush and his team argued that a nonstate actor like al-Qaeda could not have pulled off the attacks alone, and that some country must have been behind it all. That state, they insisted, was Iraq—and the United States invaded Iraq. In a savage irony, they may have been right after all about state support, but flat wrong about the state. Should we now invade Saudi Arabia?
— “New 9/11 Evidence Points to Deep Saudi Complicity,” The Atlantic
Executive Orders: A Skeptic’s View of the President’s Actions
With a new authoritarian at the helm, banal summaries of executive orders don’t cut it. So I let ChatGPT do the heavy lifting: provide a brief analysis of each week’s presidential orders from a radical left perspective. No blind trust, no left-wing group think—just a bullshit detector wary of authoritarianism.