The Republic After Obama
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 5th, 2011 4:37 am by HL
The Republic After Obama
Hannah Arendt characterized politics as a realm of “speech-acts,” in which words are close enough to deeds so that the words aren’t evasive or empty and the deeds aren’t mindless or brutal. In April our national orchestra of high-minded opinion…
The Hostage Crisis Continues: Why Obama Can’t Pivot to Jobs and Growth
With the hostage crisis behind him, the President is now ready to talk about the nation’s real problem. Nine paragraphs into his remarks today announcing the nation has paid most of the ransom the radical right demanded as a condition…