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Greatness is a compliment generally conferred in retrospect. We have lucked out several times in our history when implausible characters showed unexpected greatness when it was needed: a country lawyer from Illinois, a spoiled patrician in a wheelchair, to name two obvious examples. Even more miraculous (though troublesome for democracy...
Although looking for universal qualities of greatness is a historians' parlor game, different historical moments require different qualities. Does either of this year's candidates have the seeds of greatness? I think both do. But unfortunately, our current political system seems designed to weed out precisely the qualities that are...
The presidential campaign has been going full bore for more than a year, but suddenly everything that happened before about a month ago seems irrelevant. Through the fog of partisanship, we can acknowledge that both candidates are good men. But good isn't enough. This time we need greatness.
According to documentary filmmaker Ken Burns, the lasting value of this spontaneous statement illustrates “what presidential greatness can be.”
Industrial lights reflect intermittently off the windshield of a speeding automobile as “Blindness,” the new film by acclaimed Brazilian director Fernando Meirelles, opens with stunning visuals. Meirelles, whose past credits include the equally arresting “City of God,” ingeniously...