Deep State (of Depression)

Once again I’m watching scenes from one of my novels play out on television, and once again I’m finding it depressing. Deep Statewas a novel about a revolution against an oppressive Turkish government, and now we get to see that on CNN— and to watch Christine Amanpour try to corner a Turkish official about exactly which “terrorists, radicals, and marginal people” are responsible for the violence. (He had no answer, since it’s perfectly obvious that the overwhelming majority of the violence is...