Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.
From George Packer
In its lowest, most common form, inspiration is simple charisma that becomes magnified by the media, as with Ronald Reagan or Bill Clinton.
The idea of solving as huge and long-term a problem as inequality - which, for my money, is the biggest single problem we have here at home - just never gets serious concern from both sides.
The Olympics are never just about sports.
If giving money to a politician prejudiced my ability to think and write honestly, I wouldn't do it. Fortunately, it doesn't.
My readers know my views on politics and politicians because I make no secret of them in my comments for 'The New Yorker' and elsewhere.
Often, foreign policy - which, by definition, is largely out of American control - is simply a matter of not doing the wrong thing, the unwise thing.
The best example of Obama's success in foreign policy is Iran.
Americans almost never elect presidents on the basis of foreign policy.
I spend much too much time on the Web with e-mail and surfing and reading my key sites, and a whole day can go by, and you wonder, 'What did I do today?'
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