Less than magnificent obsession
By
Shorter verbatim Bobo:
In 1978, the Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn gave a commencement address at Harvard, warning us about the loss of American self-confidence and will. “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today,” he declared.
Today, those words ring with disturbing force. The enemies of liberal democracy seem to be full of passionate intensity — Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, Donald Trump, campus radicals.
On the one hand, Donald Trump incited a violent mob to try to nullify the results of an election. On the other hand, a 19-year-old one of the three college campuses in America that exist in the minds of anyone employed by the New York Times said something dumb. And when you consider that Uncle Joe Brandon is the reason that my employer won’t expense four quadruple bourbons at an airport bar….CHECKMATE LIBS!