Tag Archives: patience

The Dalai Lama on Obama

By chris | Published: 22 November 2009
There has been much hand-wringing about Obama’s lack of results in China. As Stephen Walt explained, this was the fruits of years of folly. Yet despite delivering on the one issue that really really mattered (and the one could be realistically advanced)–a shared approach to sustaining the global environment–the New York Times, while demonstrating it [...]
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The Age of Cynicism

By chris | Published: 24 October 2009
Madeleine Bunting is in a quiet way one of my favourite journalists writing today. She invariably tackles important questions and I often find myself grappling with them immediately and then reflecting on on months later. Her latest column, Our speechless outrage demands a new language of the common good, I think will fall comfortably into [...]
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