February 1, 2012
ow many minutes has it been since you heard someone call this the greatest country in the world? How many seconds? Did you agree? Ooops. Was it you saying that? It used to be arguably true. We got accustomed to telling ourselves it was so. We believed it. Many of us, most of us still [...]
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January 9, 2009
Please forgive me. I am doing something I have only done once before. I have copy and pasted a commentary from someone else. Johann Hari is a British journalist. Among other awards, he is the youngest ever winner of the George Orwell Award. This is the pre-eminent award for British political writing. He writes for [...]
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