The Republic After Obama
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on August 15th, 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 Story Obama Never Told
The “must-read” of this moment is Drew Westen’s “What Happened to Obama’s Passion?” in the New York Times’ Sunday “Review” (not the Book Review) section. As I did in “The Republic After Obama” here last week, Westen, a professor of…