Every now and then, I come across a prominently posted commentary that combines virtue-signaling with the appearance of weighty scholarship.  A perfect illustration is "Trumpism and the Philosophy of World Order," a polemic produced by Mark S. Weiner, who is a Fulbright recipient and visiting professor in American studies at the University of Uppsala (Sweden).  Weiner does not rule out "incompetence" and "mental instability" in accounting for the unwelcome behavior of an American leader whom he and his friends ostentatiously despise.  But, he insists, "[t]here is a deeper and even more troubling explanation of the US president's behavior."  Weiner sees this in, among other situations, Trump's immigration positions and how he appears on TV standing next to Vladimir Putin.  Although the American president "is no philosopher," somehow "there is one thinker whom Trump...(Read Full Article)