Obama and the Return of the Real
By Jonathan Schell
This article appeared in the February 9, 2009 edition of The Nation.
January 22, 2009 (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090209/schell)
I see the work of gods who pile tower-high the pride of those who were
nothing, and dash present grandeur down.
--Euripides, in The Trojan Women, referring to the fall of Troy
The inauguration of Barack Obama, "whose father less than sixty years ago
might not have been served at a local restaurant," is both…
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