Houston President Obama is having to shovel behind the National Security Agency (NSA) way too much for anyone to feel that they are in check. The latest hullabaloo is not Brazil this time, but our old buddies in France and Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, who we have been counting on to keep Europe …
Category: Ideas and Issues
The Circle will be Broken by Boredom: Eggers & 1984
New Orleans I’m not sure that I could be classified as a Dave Eggers fan, but not being that much of a fiction reader, I’ve actually read a good sampling of his books, and I am an admirer of his imagination, his topicality, and his ambition. Of the four Eggers’ books I’ve now read, two …
Meeting with the National League of Democracy
Yangon We had gotten lucky. We had a meeting scheduled with the head of the Labor Committee for the National League of Democracy, which is of course the party led by Nobel Laureate and global symbol of democratic struggle, Aung San Suu Kyi, and we met the Labor chief but our real meeting was with …