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...
Obama’s Red Guard: The Poisoning of America’s Youth December 11, 2023
Everything we’re seeing on campuses throughout America today – the contempt for America’s founding, the embracement of censorship, the sneering dismissal of Western democratic values, the outright celebration of savagery – all of it goes back to Ba...
The Obama Factor August 08, 2023
There is a fascinating passage in Rising Star, David Garrow’s comprehensive biography of Barack Obama’s early years, in which the historian examines Obama’s account in Dreams from My Father of his breakup with his longtime Chicago girlfriend, Sheila ...
The Burning of America's Library August 07, 2023
Perhaps you have heard: the book banners are at it again. One of the biggest narratives of the summer, if not the entire year, goes something like this: all across America, and particularly in deplorable redneck enclaves like [checks notes] the entir...
