The Year in John Cassidy

From tragic terrorist attacks to the confounding ubiquity of Donald Trump, the news in 2015 was as head-spinning as ever. In reviewing John Cassidy’s analyses of the year’s events, what stands out is the responses’ breadth—not just thematic, but temporal. Often writing immediately after news has broken, Cassidy distills what has just happened with an astute eye to what will still matter months down the road. As he says in a May reflection on the late mathematician and game theorist John Nash, “We know it is possible to impose at least some order on the chaos.”

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