Summary: Here’s a gem amidst the flood of nonsense that is Campaign 2016. Berkeley Professor Mark Danner gives a sensible liberal analysis of the Trump phenomenon, with its strengths and biases. “Like Hercules, Donald Trump is a work of fiction.” — From “An Open Letter to Trump Voters from His Top Strategist-Turned-Defector” by Stephanie Cegielski …
Prof Danner looks at “The Magic of Donald Trump” Read More »
Summary: Dazzled by Nobel Peace Prize President Hope and Change, people (including historians and political scientists) and have only slowly recognized that Obama has largely continued the policies of his greater predecessor — a man who truly changed the course of American history. Until we understand our past we cannot effectively cope with our future. …
We live in the America Bush Jr created, a break with our past. Read More »
Summary: The Iraq War begins a new phase, perhaps with US involvement. But we’ve not admitted, let along learned from, the massive institutional failures of the public policy machinery that produced it. Departments of Defense and State, the National Security Council, military, the President, NGOs, the press — all failed. Instead we focus on pretend …
Iraq gives us another opportunity to confront our mistakes, and learn from them Read More »
