Increasingly, pillars of the establishment are sounding like shrill critics.

Yet the reactions to his sad plight, especially in France, have been oddly shrill.

Alarmingly, the resulting political debate has degenerated into a shrill cacophony of moral righteousness, finger pointing, scapegoating, and stereotyping.

The same can be said about the shrill tone that Turkey, and Erdogan himself, has recently adopted vis à vis Israel.

Wouldn t they be more likely to read pundits with better track records? If so, pundits might adapt to accountability by showing more humility, and political debate might begin to sound less shrill.

Orbán s putative political role models are likely to become even more shrill and nationalist in foreign policy as they attempt to retain domestic support. In order to secure peace on the home front, leaders will point to the enemies real or imaginary at the gate.