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By Steven - Monday, June 16th, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Dear fellow Obama supporters,
To those of you who might be interested, I shall be giving a lecture tomorrow (Tuesday, June 17) at the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, to present my book "Antisemitism. A Very Short Introduction".
Time: 7pm.
Place: Forchheimer Auditorium, Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, NYC
Admission is $10 fo more...
By Steven - Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 at 7:10 AM
This optimism is not a naïve one. As Obama has constantly repeated, "hope" in his understanding is not pie-in-the-sky wishful thinking, but rather a commitment, almost an existential commitment, to belief in the "better angels of our nature" despite our full realization of the many challenges to any worthy cause, and the many imperfe more...
By Steven - Monday, June 2nd, 2008 at 9:32 AM
It is this emphasis on connection and inclusion, on seeing society as a connected whole, that is, I think, behind Obama's attraction for usually conservative columnists such as David Brooks. Instead of approaching American politics as an exercise in slice-and-dice demographics, with the aim only to satisfy one's client base, Obama has tap more...
By Steven - Sunday, June 1st, 2008 at 10:06 AM
In an odd way, Revd. Jeremiah Wright, a closer contemporary to Clinton than Obama, is more spiritually akin to the Senator from New York than the one from Illinois. For Wright too sees a society that has not fundamentally changed, and cannot fundamentally change, in which the opportunities for black people, or in Clinton's case wo more...
By Steven - Saturday, May 31st, 2008 at 9:30 AM
Things have changed dramatically since 1968, of course, and the sort of violence (and revolutionary, messianic hopes for society) that accompanied political events then, are highly unlikely to occur in the context of the 2008 campaign. Nevertheless, the approaches of the two candidates do show parallels with those of 1968, and much to the ben more...
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