Word: delusional
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Attention seekers like the Salahis, and before them the Heenes, suffer the opposite delusion: believing that their success in the world of pseudocelebrity insulates them from real-world consequences. In a state of media-induced temporary insanity, you might forget that people could get annoyed at you for faking your...
Conservative politicians have a hard time believing this. I've seen it too often. They fly to Washington. They give speeches in congenial think tanks and have dinners with like-minded friends. They return to London convinced the U.S. would welcome a Britain that spoke independently of the E.U. and...
In October of 1975, 17-year-old Alistair Little, approached the window of the Griffin family household and shot 19-year-old Jim Griffin three times. Jim’s younger brother, Joe, frozen by the sight of the gun in the masked man’s hand, stood in...
It’s been a rough start to the year, what with the loss of hot breakfast and that full week before classes. Feeling down, FM decided to visit Annenberg to remember a time when we also had hopes and dreams (also, for the hot breakfast). We surveyed some...
The one thing that struck me was the gap between Federer's physical and mental abilities. He doesn't have this supreme confidence that other athletes have. As good as Tiger Woods is with a golf club, he also has this assassin quality to him. Federer doesn't have the...