To bookmark: Torie Bosch is keeping an ongoing tally of sex assault allegations levied against Donald Trump here.
What’s wrong with him? Should psychologists refrain from diagnosing a public figure, like Trump, from afar? That’s been the profession’s stance for decades—since the 1964 election, in fact—but Sally Satel thinks things have changed.
The Trump beat: Isaac Chotiner interviews the Washington Post’s David Fahrenthold about his two big Trump scoops. What have your interactions with the campaign been like? Chotiner asks. “I have sent them a lot of questions over email, and in general they don’t respond,” Farenthold replies. “Sometimes they do. [Corey] Lewandowski called, Trump himself called and called me a nasty guy, and then there was a long period of silence.”
Not there: Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday, but he doesn’t deserve it, Stephen Metcalf thinks; look at his lyrics alongside a Richard Wilbur poem, and you shall see.
Virago no more: Nancy Grace, who once embodied a particular kind of television outrage culture, has become so unpopular that she’s lost her show. But why? Laura Bennett wonders. We love true crime. Is Grace just not nuanced enough, in the year of Making a Murderer?
For fun: New York Times lawyer David McCraw, on fire.
Very satisfying,
Rebecca
