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Michiko Kakutani

American Critic

Born: Jan 9, 1955

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My mother's family was among the 120,000 people of Japanese descent on the West Coast who were dispatched to internment camps during World War II. Michiko Kakutani

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President Trump not only lies with astonishing temerity and abandon, but those lies connect into equally false narratives that gin up the worst fears and prejudices of his base. Michiko Kakutani

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The removal of people of Japanese descent from their homes and their incarceration in camps were executed with the same sort of political calculus of fear and bigotry that Mr. Trump is using to redefine American immigration policy. Michiko Kakutani

Indeed, 'The Second Plane' is such a weak, risible, and often objectionable volume that the reader finishes it convinced that Mr. Amis should stick to writing fiction and literary criticism, as he's thoroughly discredited himself with these essays as any sort of political or social commentator. Michiko Kakutani

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Like many people, I became increasingly alarmed during the 2016 campaign and the first year of the Trump administration by the full-on war being waged on the very idea of truth. Michiko Kakutani

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One of the things I wanted to do in 'The Death of Truth' was explore some of the larger social and political dynamics that fueled the rise of Trump and brought America to the point where a third of the country will casually shrug off hard facts about everything from the size of inaugural crowds to the crime rate among immigrants. Michiko Kakutani

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I find it hard to write in the first person. Michiko Kakutani

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