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Why Hope Isn’t Always a Good Thing

January 22, 2013

Hope isn’t wishful thinking. It’s full of requirements.

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Tagged With: Hope, Politics, Virtue
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Politics After the Apocalypse

November 11, 2012

If all the libraries in the world were destroyed and you could save only two books of political theory, which would they be?

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Tagged With: Barack Obama, Politics
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100 Days Citizen Test

April 29, 2009

On President Obama’s hundredth day: five questions for citizens.

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Tagged With: Barack Obama, Citizenship, Dialog, Politics, Richard Harwood
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RCB Bookmarks, Mid-January, 2009

January 18, 2009

Links on culture, reading, and the web.

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Tagged With: Bookmarks, Books, Civility, Dana Hanley, Digital Literacy, digitalculture, e-books, e-readers, Jason Epstein, Kassia Krozser, NEA, Peter Osnos, Politics, RCBLinks, Reading, Reading on the Rise, SpinStoppers, Voltaire
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Exhilaration, Exhaustion, Tennyson

November 21, 2008

“The old order changeth, yielding place to new,
And God fulfils Himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.”

— Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Passing of Arthur

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Tagged With: Alfred Lord Tennyson, Barack Obama, Camelot, Change, Democracy, John McCain, King Arthur, Politics, Sacrifice
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Intermission Music

November 4, 2008

“I have to admit, it’s getting better…”

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Tagged With: Beatles, Change, Music, Politics
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Wisdom versus Winning

November 3, 2008

After all this, is your world not larger than it was before? Show me you both are looking for wisdom and understanding, rather than victory.

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Tagged With: Barack Obama, Community, Debate, John McCain, Political Friendship, Politics, Wisdom
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Letter to a Young Voter

November 2, 2008

It’s late in the election cycle, and I do not know if you have yet registered to vote, but I exhort you as my fellow citizen, my political friend, to go and vote. And after that, to participate in other ways, by reading, commenting, contributing, serving, listening, speaking, advocating. Politics grows from the practice of everyday life in the presence of strangers and friends. It doesn’t matter whether you have everything figured out yet — just participate. Be devoted — make a sacrifice of devotion — to the city and nation in which you have found yourself. They are your family, and they need you.

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Tagged With: Aristotle, Cities, Citizenship, Community of Practice, Danielle S. Allen, Devotion, Political Friendship, Politics, Richard C. Harwood, Vote
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Another Halloween

October 31, 2008

It’s that time of year again, when our culture takes a holiday originating in fall harvest and the passing of generations, and turns it into a celebration of imagination, childhood, community, misrule, aggression, terror, & trauma (as well as another opportunity for a capitalist binge).

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Tagged With: Barack Obama, David Bordwell, Fear, Halloween, Holidays, John McCain, Politics, Stories, Zombies
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My Kind of Expert

October 24, 2008

“The very idea that there is no truth, but only the filter of narrative through which truth is invented is something I learned at the feet of the most leftist professors at Yale and am learning again from Sarah Palin during the Vice Presidential debate, and I find that very disorienting.”

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Tagged With: Experts, Humor, John Hodgman, Literary Criticism, Onion, Politics, Sarah Palin, Stories, Truth, Yale University
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Math Against Tyranny — Understanding the Electoral College

October 17, 2008

“Experts, scholars, deep thinkers could make errors on electoral reform,” Alan Natapoff decided, “but nine-year-olds could explain to a Martian why the Yankees lost in 1960, and why it was right. And both have the same underlying abstract principle.”

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Tagged With: Alan Natapoff, Baseball, Electoral College, Math, Politics, Sports, World Series
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Dashed Hopes (or, Nonsense in Nashville)

October 8, 2008

Richard Harwood: “When this campaign started, many people, including myself, thought it was a golden opportunity for a real debate between competing visions for the nation’s future. Remember that?”

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Tagged With: Barack Obama, Debate, Fact Checking, John McCain, Nashville, Politics, Presidents, Richard Harwood
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