Washington Post, Sunday, April 19, 2009 WASHINGTON — America’s “progressive” president has some peculiarly retro policies. Domestically, his reactionary liberalism is exemplified by his policy of No Auto Company Left Behind, with its intimated hope that depopulated Detroit, where cattle could graze, can somehow return to something like the 1950s. Abroad, he seems to yearn [...]
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George Will, Potemkin Country
April 19, 2009From Lewis H. Lapham in Harper’s Magazine, May, 2009
April 19, 2009Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say; Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best’s a gay good night and quickly turn away. —W. B. Yeats Jean Baudrillard, writing in his last book, Cool Memories V, after having been diagnosed with [...]
