Getting real about liberty and security (will take a little while)
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on January 21st, 2009 5:33 am by HL
Getting real about liberty and security (will take a little while)
Hello, all. I’m very happy to be joining the conversation on the greatest public day of my life so far. I’ll say more about that when I anchor the Wednesday discussion on Community. For the Liberty topic: The reforms…
An Era of Shared Responsibility
My first impression of President (yes, President!) Obama’s first speech is that it was more sober, less inspirational than it could have been. But my favorite parts were about how we shouldn’t debate over big government or small government, but…
Looking Toward the Mountaintop
We have overcome. We have reached the mountaintop. We have entered a post-racial era. We are witnessing a racial thaw. For many Americans–especially whites–the Obama inauguration is a moment of self-congratulation. That 43 percent of white voters pulled the…