It’s the end of 2025 (thank God) and we’re taking a look back at the year that was on Lincoln Square. We’re starting out with the top 5 Rick Wilson columns for the year. It was really, really hard to narrow this down. But we tried.
So without further ado …
The East Wing Obscenity
·There’s a way the light falls in the White House on autumn afternoons in Washington, thinning with the waning of the year, slanting, a dull gold the color of old parchment, that makes you feel you’ve slipped into a country where history isn’t past tense but a persistent whisper.
Trump Goes to Hell
·They say there’s a bright tunnel, a welcoming chorus, a beaming reunion with the lost and beloved. He got the tunnel, sure, but the light was gaudy, with a little neon edge to it, as if someone had gold-leafed the sun and marked it up fifty percent. The chorus was a loop of his own applause lines, tinny and off-tempo. He had the odd sensation of dying i…
The Silence of the Generals
·Here’s the thing, and you know it in your bones: That speech was insane. Not “politician riffing” insane. Not “grandpa got a little too stoked on Adderall” insane.
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