A version of this essay originally appeared in The Hudson Review (Volume XXIX, Number 3, Autumn 1976). I originally wrote the piece because I respected Bill Bradley’s basketball game, I admired his first book, Life on the Run, and I hoped he one day would enter professional political life. I’m now revising and posting the …
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Dec 19
Signs of the Times
– There is still a real magic in the action and reaction of minds on one another. [Thomas Carlyle] In 1829, a young man from Scotland published an essay entitled Signs of the Times. Carlyle was unknown, and seemingly ill-equipped for consequence or celebrity. Yet the essay seemed to all who read it …
Sep 26
The Disease of Conceit
There’s a whole lot of people suffering tonight From the disease of conceit – Bob Dylan The Tea Party/CNN Republican Presidential Debate was conducted on September 12, 2011. The Fox News/Google iteration followed on September 22nd. I’ve watched both contests again and again, always with fascination and sorrow. Fascination at the passion, pageantry, and predictability …
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