Is Obama the Next Lincoln? Is Obama the Next Lincoln?
Two historians discuss the similarities and differences between the two senators cum presidents from Illinois.
Jan 21, 2009 / CBS
Clair de Lune Clair de Lune
We revolt ourselves; we disgust and annoy us. The way we look at us lately chills us to the core. We become like those who seek to destroy us. We push ourselves into small tasks that employ us unrewardingly on purpose. We tire, we bore. We revolt ourselves; we disgust and annoy us. We rent ourselves to what force will enjoy us into oblivion: wind, drink, sleep. We pimp, we whore. We become like those who seek to destroy us. We cat-and-mouse, roughhouse, inflatable-toy us in our heads' red maze, in its den, on its shore. We revolt ourselves; we disgust and annoy us. We take offense at our being; we plot, we deploy us against us and flummox; we wallow, we war. We become like those who seek to destroy us. If in triumph, our defeat; in torture, our joy is. Some confusion so deep I can't fathom anymore. We appall ourselves; we disgust and annoy us into those we become we who seek to destroy us.
Jan 21, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Timothy Donnelly
How Audacious Will Obama Choose to Be? How Audacious Will Obama Choose to Be?
Note: A shorter version of this essay appears in today's edition of the Wall Street Journal. President Barack Obama takes office at a time defined by hope and fear in equal measu...
Jan 21, 2009 / Katrina vanden Heuvel
A New Era of Accountability A New Era of Accountability
As Obama gets down to work, what assurances do we have that he will break with the past--on an unfair and opaque bailout and the war in Afghanistan?
Jan 21, 2009 / Column / Robert Scheer
Pete Seeger for the Nobel Pete Seeger for the Nobel
This past Sunday, Pete Seeger became the oldest person to perform publicly as part of Barack Obama's inauguration festivities. Singing the "greatest song about America ever writ...
Jan 20, 2009 / Peter Rothberg
‘Bailout Is a No-Strings Windfall to Bankers, If Not to Borrowers’—New York Times ‘Bailout Is a No-Strings Windfall to Bankers, If Not to Borrowers’—New York Times
Got money?
Jan 20, 2009 / Column / Calvin Trillin
Puzzle No. 3155 Puzzle No. 3155
ACROSS
1 Such as "O Death, Where Is Thy Sting!"--signs that such as A or B have moved out. (11)
Jan 20, 2009 / Frank W. Lewis
Underground Man Underground Man
Nimrod Workman's craggy ballads of Mingo County coal country.
Jan 20, 2009 / Books & the Arts / Justin Taylor
Inside the Barack Concert Inside the Barack Concert
Jon Stewart observes that after eight long years good entertainers will perform for the president again.
Jan 20, 2009 / The Daily Show