THIS WEEK’S IMMIGRATION FRACAS: THE VERY DEFINITION OF DANIEL BOORSTIN’S MEDIA PSEUDO-EVENT.

Watching the collective media and political class freak out over the “crisis” of immigration enforcement at the border sent me to my bookshelf to dust off Daniel Boorstin’s classic 1961 book, The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America. Step back for a moment from the whack-a-mole problem of sorting out fact from fiction in this current drama; the way this is playing out is a perfect case study in what Boorstin had in mind.

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