Vox Verax (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
by Hendrik Hertzberg December 14, 2009 The New Yorker There are no good options for the United States in Afghanistan. That has been the conventional wisdom for some years now, and this time the conventional wisdom—the reigning cliché—happens to be true. President Obama did not pretend otherwise in his address at West Point last week. His grimly businesslike speech was...
The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
There are no good options for the United States in Afghanistan. That has been the conventional wisdom for some years now, and this time the conventional wisdom—the reigning cliché—happens to be true. President Obama did not pretend otherwise in his address at West Point last . . .
On Our Radar Today (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
concludes that the best solution would be (to borrow Obamas words at the press conference) whats called a single-payer system, in which everybody is automatically covered. But, by the same token, pretty much everybody who believes the same thing, and who
The Daily Blague (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
This is just to thank Hendrik Hertzberg for the Comment piece that opens this week’s Talk of the Town in The New Yorker. A dismal process of elimination has left the President to design a strategy that he believes is the only one that offers a chance, in his words, “to bring this war to [...]
Sisyphus (Free subscription) | yesterday
... President picked the least awful option that hopefully can lead to a non-disastrous conclusion. Hendrik Hertzberg summarizes the dilemma faced by the President : There are no good options for the United States in Afghanistan. That has been the conventional wisdom for some years now, and this time the conventional wisdom—the reigning cliché—happens to be true. President...
Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
His grimly businesslike speech was a gritty, almost masochistic exercise in the taking of responsibility. What he had to say did not please everyone; indeed, it pleased no one. Given the situation bequeathed to him and to the nation, pleasure was not an option. ...Hendrik Hertzberg, New Yorker Fortunately, Barack Obama is nobody's fool. He knew what he was taking on. Being a people pleaser...
The Scribe (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
11/19/09 -- Hendrik Hertzberg of the New Yorker was interviewed about his book on Obama's first year in the White House on Michael Krasny's "Forum" at KQED. Michael Krasny: Hendrik Hertzberg is the author of a new book on the...
Prairie Weather (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
Excerpt from an interview with Hendrik Hertzberg about Obama's first year in office. HH: I'm from New York City and I'm not scared of having the trial in New York. And this trumped fear about having the trial in New...
