Using a slightly different tack than my last two political posts, Michael Knox Beran argues that the undercurrent of Obama’s charisma is the assumption of a communual society where people are fundamentally good.
In other (my) words, if elected, he could usher in a New Jerusalem:
The danger of Obama’s charismatic healer-redeemer fable lies in the hubris it [...]
Phaedrus: A ridiculous question! But tell me what you say you have heard.
Socrates: I heard, then, that at Naucratis, in Egypt, was one of the ancient gods of that country, the one whose sacred bird is called the ibis, and the name of the god himself was Theuth. He it was who [274d] invented numbers [...]
The second of a series involving noise in front of the coffee shop and my iPhone.
On a warm October Friday in St. Louis, worn down from the drudgery of a week in front of a computer screen, I was grazing in front of the café for a cigarette (I had run out of my weekly ration) [...]