The Specter of Donald Trump Pulled Andrew Sullivan Back to Political Writing

"But Trump, goddammit"

Andrew Sullivan‘s short-lived retreat from the media biz involved, at some point, a real retreat, he tells Vox’s Ezra Klein in an interview on Klein’s podcast. It involved ten days of “extremely grueling” sunup to sundown meditation at a retreat designed for that purpose.

He learned an important lesson from the experience:

What I drew from that, in many ways, was the thought that we do live the way the meditators say: The lives we live are not the ones we think we’re living.

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