Barack Obama
I Did Not Build Me: Politics, Fragility, and the Self-Made Life
“Look, if you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get […]
Another Week Ends: Work and Play, Oprah and Colbert, Barack and Ma …
The work and play issue continues. This week we saw two articles surface that had […]
Another Week Ends: Ben Franklin’s Bible, Desperate Millennia …
1. Doubtless you’ve heard, but in a true laugh-or-you’ll-cry moment, Ben Franklin’s notorious “God helps […]
The Inner Totalitarian
In case you missed it in Tuesday’s NYTimes, a few takeaways from David Brooks’ insightful […]
Obama’s Nobel: Law or Gospel?
I was struck today by the following excerpts regarding Barack Obama’s unexpected, and perhaps undeserved […]
Reinhold Niebuhr on Obama, the Recession, and Creative Despair
[Ed. note: Be sure to read the comments for the, um, commentary.] “[T]he course of […]
Chris Rock on Obama, Racism, Anthropology
A couple relevant thoughts from a recent interview with CNN.com: CNN: What are you hoping […]