Barack Obama
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Our Brave New World July 17, 2024
Around every sin that our nation has committed — sins we are committing now and will commit in the future — will be found bad people posing as good, knowingly twisting the plain meaning of widely held values to cover and excuse the ugliest of ends an...
An Insider’s Portrait of Obama-Era Hope July 03, 2024
The 2008 election of Barack Obama electrified a generation of Americans, who projected onto him almost limitless meanings. It also spawned a cottage industry of public thinkers whose affiliation with the Obama administration helped launch their caree...
Behind the Candidate March 07, 2024
Early in Vinson Cunningham’s sophisticated debut novel—cheekily titled Great Expectations—the narrator, David Hammond, stands in the front room of a Brooklyn Heights brownstone, watching his boss give a speech. The house belongs to a publisher, a “wh...
