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Who Sings the Unforgiving Wilderness?
On the fifth anniversary of war in Iraq, I have been looking back to the 19th century. And back to New Hampshire and over two long months ago, when Senator Barack Obama gave his “Yes We Can” speech that has since sparked its own pop cultural movement reflected in will.i.am’s video. Embedded within that […]
And then yet you’ll find Hawai‘i
Jodi Kantor at the New York Times writes:
Since he was very young, Senator Barack Obama has been something of a mediator of racial concerns, shuttling between black and white worlds and trying to translate the concerns of one to the other.
But how might the Hawai‘i of Senator Obama’s youth signify outside black/white divides where the […]
“The past isn’t dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past.”
Supreme Court Justice Kennedy during oral arguments yesterday on the Second Amendment:
“It had nothing to do with the concern of the remote settler to defend himself and his family against hostile Indian tribes and outlaws, wolves and bears and grizzlies and things like that?”
Also yesterday, a more perfect union.
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