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“At First, Conservatives Denounced This Agenda As A Virtual Revolution”
One thing seemingly lost in the constant hum of the news cycle, the latest poll, the endless horse race that takes us nowhere, is that some are playing the long game, resistant to the cult of now. Or...
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“The International System Lacks Many Of The Stabilizing Elements That Have...
President Obama’s foreign policy strategy has long been clear: sanctions, containment, diplomacy, no boots on the ground unless absolutely necessary and a reluctance to arm those fighting regimes we...
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“I Had This Sense Of Surreality”
Donald Trump, a human oil spill, apparently requested that the Obama Administration make him czar of the BP cleanup effort, according to David Axelrod’s new book. From Amy Chozick in the New York...
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“A White House Will Have To Have Many More Resources Dedicated To Producing...
Dan Pfeiffer, the outgoing White House communications advisor who planted President Obama between two ferns among other off-center platforms, spoke with Steven Levy at Backchannel about POTUS PR in a...
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10 Things That Happened Since Chuck Todd Declared The Obama Administration...
In the summer of 2014, Chuck Todd, who is paid to say words about politics on television, declared that he had looked at poll results and that the American people had decided that the Obama...
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“There’s Been That Strain In Our Democracy And In American Politics For A...
Marilynne Robinson (the writer) and Barack Obama (the President) are the type of people I’m happy if surprised America still turns out. They seem of this time but of another as well, with a sense of...
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“Mr. Obama Lowered The Bar”
You have to be drinking a lot of gravy to buy any of the nonsense dished out by former Reagan scriptwriter Peggy Noonan. Two doozies from her latest grab-bag of bullshit in the Wall Street Journal...
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“The Most Important Stuff I’ve Learned I Think I’ve Learned From Novels”
I don’t think there’s ever been a richer time for books of all kinds than right now. Perhaps that’s just the loudest crack of thunder before the skies dry up, but I would bet not. The traditional...
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“His Period In Office Has Provoked Rebellious Popular Movements Outside...
It’s not that there’s nothing of use in John O’Sullivan’s Wall Street Journal “Saturday Essay” about this upside-down American election season, but it’s built, in part, on shaky and partisan...
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“If Progressives Were Wise They Would Step Back”
“Election have consequences,” exclaimed our face-shootingest Veep, Dick Cheney. Just a few years later, President Obama flipped the script, springing that phrase on Eric Cantor during negotiations...
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“There’s Already An Evolution Taking Place Inside Of Cuba”
Friendships are fragile things. In his just-concluded trip to Cuba, President Obama met with Che Guevara’s ghost but was denied Fidel Castro in the flesh. Brother Raoul, now running the show more or...
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“It Doesn’t Necessarily Follow That A World Without Work Would Be Filled With...
For those raised under capitalism who’ve absorbed the teachings of that system, a post-scarcity Second Machine Age sans labor is awfully difficult to envision. It’s essentially the technology-driven...
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“It Has Been Seeping Into Our Lives In All Sorts Of Ways”
In yesterday’s post about Charlie Rose interviewing a fellow robot, I argued that the humanoid form we envision when we consider AI is a distraction from the actual creeping effects of the technology,...
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“Government Will Never Run The Way Silicon Valley Runs”
In an excellent New York Times Magazine piece, Jenna Wortham writes of the boon and bane that attends Barack Obama being the “first digital President,” the one who ushered into D.C. the start-up...
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“American Politics Is Always Somewhat Fluid”
This election revealed an evil that existed deep in the hearts of enough people, ill feelings previously stilled by expectations of civility. It was unloosed by the most disgraceful political campaign...
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“I Don’t Think Obama Is Convinced Of His Own Language Of Hope”
David Remnick has as ably as any journalist met the considerable challenge of analyzing the stunning election to our highest office of a cartoonish Reality TV star who is clearly unprepared for the...
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“It Will Not Be Pretty”
“He must be taken seriously,” Edward Luce wrote in the Financial Times in December 2015 of Donald Trump, as the anti-politician trolled the whole of America with his Penthouse-Apartment Pinochet...
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“There’s No Other Way To Explain Obama’s Inability To Imagine This Nation...
Hope is usually audacious but sometimes misplaced. Without that feeling of expectation in a country founded on white supremacy that has never erased institutional racism, Barack Hussein Obama would...
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“That’s Just A Terrible Darkening Of The National Outlook”
Barack Obama is a poet, but Marilynne Robinson is a better one. No offense to 44–I don’t think the Housekeeping author would be nearly as good a President. It’s just that sometimes a poet can see what...
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