As these meanings took hold, trumpery was also being used as it is today: for nonsense, malarkey, and bunk. Today, trumpery can refer to just about any sort of balderdash, but it used to refer ...

Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw, along with American songwriter Bob Dylan, are the only two people to achieve literary and cinematic harmony: winning both the Nobel and the Oscar. Bernard Shaw ...

We see that in primaries across the nation where candidates such as Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania, Herschel Walker in Georgia and dozens of others are running on a platform of Trumpery. It poses a ...

Former president Donald Trump speaks to supporters during a rally on May 1 in Greenwood, Neb. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) In an invaluable Brookings Institution paper last year, Norm Eisen, counsel to ...

We live in a perilous in-between time, full of violence not only in those whom we call enemies but also in ourselves. The Trappist monk Thomas Merton wrote in early 1960, "The most obvious ...

The English word "trumpery," which derives from a French word meaning "to deceive," is defined in the dictionary as "showy but worthless." It is now common knowledge (hat tip to the Internet) that ...

Editor’s Note: Norman Eisen is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and the editor and co-author of “Overcoming Trumpery: How to Restore Ethics, the Rule of Law, and Democracy.” Colby Galliher ...