The presidential race has taken more of an interesting turn than I could have imagined with John McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin as a running mate. I’m not going to talk about Sarah Palin, but as a confirmed member of the East Coast Liberal Enemy (the Harvard Political Review is pretty much ground zero), I can’t say there’s a single ... Read More
John McCain’s speech at the Republican National Convention did a handful of things poorly and a lot of things well. While the speech didn’t make Cindy McCain’s teal jacket fit properly, nor prevent the large screen behind the nominee from looking (at times) like a green screen, it did an impressive job of highlighting McCain’s extraordinary past and divorced the ... Read More
recently read an article by Bernard-Henri Levy in the New Republic on the financial crisis, which I highly recommend. There was one part I found highly affecting, which was the quotation, from a French historian, that “History is tragic.” The American Dream consists of a long, drawn-out rejection of this idea. When we look at the two presidential candidates, ... Read More
“I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them,” Caroline Kennedy wrote in January in her endorsement of Barack Obama. From the start of his campaign, Barack Obama has wrapped himself in the mantle, and the myth, of the Kennedy family. But by turning down public financing for the fall ... Read More
Republicans lately seem to be trying harder to be funny than ever before. And in many cases, they’re actually succeeding—albeit in a a “Charlie Cook thinks we’re screwed anyway, so we might as well stop pretending to take ourselves seriously” kind of way. First there was this web ad put out July 29 by the RNC right after Barack ... Read More
