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1. This marks the 400th posting of #TolstoysTalesofTrump! Learning that even my own father @DanielEllsberg was mystified by this saga, perhaps some explanation is in order. First: These are not actually written by Tolstoy (1828-1910), who did not live to see the rise of Twitter. 
2. The conceit of this series was to imagine a commentary on the age of Trump by transposing him into the world of Tolstoy’s “moral tales”—the world of vain and corrupt landowners, petty aristocrats, and capricious masters who mistake servility and fear for real love.
3. Others have much better explored the psychopathology of the president (@yourauntemma @gtconway3d @MaryLTrump). Instead of simply noting that “Trump is a lying amoral narcissist,” I would reflect on our time thru the story of the master of a 19th cen Russian estate.
