The WikiLeaks story is really becoming a saga. It’s like a new chapter is added every week, with new characters and new ethical questions raised. The latest one helped me work out at least one big answer to move forward with. The answer hinges on trust. It used to be that knowledge was power: it [...]
integrity
I’ve finally quieted my mind and collected my thoughts about the events in Ottawa this weekend — just enough to make sense of things by way of juxtaposing an older post on the meaning of integrity in politics. In that post I held up Barack Obama as a paradigm of integrity, arguing that: Having established a [...]
John McCain and his people just don’t seem to give a fuck anymore (neither do I — can you tell?) and it’s kind of enthralling to watch, to see how far his campaign can devolve until people finally say, “that’s enough” — which seems to have happened over the past couple of days. Matthew Yglesias [...]
