Archive for January, 2008
Randall Kennedy: A Change is Gonna Come
A conversation with law professor Randall Kennedy the other night began with his new book
A Moment for Oracles: Amber and Braunze
The Obama Moment: The radio oracles -- "Amber" and "Braunze" -- speak the feeling and what it means.
MLK Jr. after 40 years: a Fraternal Memoir
Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered by an early colleague not so much for balancing religion and politics but for fusing Christ-centeredness with a public mission.
The post-imperial maestro: Sir Colin Davis
The orchestral conductor Sir Colin Davis sets a post-imperial lesson: giving up power in music and life.
Backstage with Henry V
Shakespeare's "Henry V" -- in a presidential campaign season -- may be the best insight of all into the contradictions of leadership and power.
George Bush in Jerusalem: Not Too Late for a Legacy
Israeli blogger Bernard Avishai and the NYTimes' Steven Erlanger conjure the benefits of boldness in George Bush's late mission to Jerusalem
Anthony Barnett on What’s Changed
Anthony Barnett is a model of thinking and doing: writer, editor, reformer and entrepreneurial radical from the Labour Club at Cambridge in the Sixties and the New Left Review in the Eighties, a hold-out from Tony Blair's New Labor movement in the Nineties, and then founding editor (months before 9.11) of the compendious site opendemocracy.net
