"Television is a utility. It’s an appliance. And the stream is also a utility, like water. If you turn on the faucet, water comes out. It just happens."

Think tanks have become the last redoubts of authority, even if no one knows what they actually are.

"The thing is patriarchy. Epstein is patriarchy. Preying on young women is patriarchy. Distancing the worker from the work is patriarchy. It's all capitalism, patriarchy, all tied up together. I know everyone is tired of hearing the intersectional feminist shit, but it's actually a thing."

Cable news anchors, eager to turn the Mueller probe into a digestible character-driven narrative, have become authors of choose-your-own-adventure storybooks.