Tweet The Charisma Deficit One mystery of the current stand-off in Egypt is the absence of a clear charismatic alternative to Hosni Mubarak. This deficit seems to be the case in much of the Arab Middle-East, where, in spite of long standing authoritarian regimes and longstanding opposition movements, true charismatic leaders have not emerged...
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Tweet This morning’s Wall Street Journal has a long feature on the Indian State of Gujarat, which is essentially a PR piece for Narendra Modi, the Chief Minister of the State, who has been identified by a series of groups, inquiries and reports to...
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Tweet I first saw the term “Blood Libel” used in a Wall Street Journal editorial, an early entry in the “it’s-not-our-fault=don’t blame us” response from the American Right to the recent Tucson murders. Sarah Palin, as usual, picked the term up for its color,...
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Tweet Image by circulating via Flickr The Arizona shootings are a moment for America to search its soul. The public debate about hate, anger, sanity and public life in the United States is long overdue. We have grown accustomed to thinking of ourselves as...
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Tweet Reposted from November 7, 2008 at “The Immanent Frame” at the SSCR: Something extraordinary happened on November 4. And even those who did not vote for Barack Obama knew that they had entered a new world after 11.00 PM that night, when he...
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