Featured Articles — November 24, 2009

November 24, 2009 by Jonathan Movroydis | Filed Under Featured Articles 

Interesting takes from home and abroad:

America’s new crisis of confidence By David Rothkopf, Foreign Policy
Hope is the life’s blood of American politics. This is a country built on the premise of boundless promise. The president certainly understood this when he entitled his autobiography The Audacity of Hope and his handlers understood it as they openly sought to emulate Ronald Reagan, the modern American political figure who understood this truth best.

Yes, she can: Palin has a shot at the presidency By Matthew Dowd, The Washington Post
President Sarah Palin. To many pundits and late-night comedians, this sounds like a punch line, and to many die-hard Democrats it sounds like a reason to leave the country.

The Values Question By David Brooks, The New York Times
It’s easy to get lost in the weeds when talking about health care reform. But, like all great public issues, the health care debate is fundamentally a debate about values. It’s a debate about what kind of country we want America to be.

Obama’s Foreign Policy: Shakedown 1979 By Christopher Badeaux, The New Ledger
With President Obama having concluded his trip through one of the fastest-dying regions of the planet, complete with literal prostrations to a symbolic Emperor and metaphorical prostrations to an Emperor in all but name, this is as good a time as any to ask whether his Administration has developed a coherent foreign policy grand strategy yet. The evidence, to date, suggests that Obama foreign policy is like Obama campaign promises: destined to be realized in some shadowy future likely – but not certain – to come, yet already awarded rich accolades merely for promise.

The Carter Ricochet Effect By Bret Stephens, The Wall Street Journal
Jimmy Carter’s presidency offers a lesson in how the purest intentions can lead to the most disastrous results.

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