President Everybody

Many ideas are believed, not on the basis of evidence, but simply because “Everybody Knows” them. Everybody Knows that conservatives are bitter clingers, that alternative energy is the wave of the future, that motorists are wasting lots of gasoline and can easily economize, that anti-Americans overseas are resentful of capitalism and can be turned by giving into them, and that Columbus was opposed by flat-earth believers. As far as I can tell, the current President believes in all of that. He knows what “Everybody Knows.”