Word: honest
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Among the demands of presidential leadership in the 21st century is this: Are you prepared to lead this conversation as an honest broker? Balancing risks and rewards is a medical challenge; redefining what we mean by being human is a moral one. And figuring out where to draw the lines must be a political...
...college very briefly—Santa Monica College of Los Angeles. It’s beautiful, but we pretty much got signed to a record deal right out of high school, so I didn’t put in any real time going to college. And to be perfectly honest, at the time, I wasn’t really interested. I was playing in the band, we were on the verge of getting a record deal, and I was working for a record label. I was really kind of immersed in the world that I wanted to be immersed...
...flaws, Senator Obama at least understands that there isn’t always a gut-felt answer in decisions of state, and he is honest with his voters about the complexities of policymaking. That insight and candor alone are more valuable than any number of years experience making decisions simply by sticking to the guns and guts of oversimplistic dogma...
...cheery worldview, but it was honest. He ate meat but realized, in his essay "Consider the Lobster," that if a crustacean is trying to claw its way out of a pot of boiling water, you are cold-blooded murderer when you eat it. In the 150th anniversary issue of The Atlantic last year, he nihilistically stated an unpopular truth about liberty: The cost of freedom is that you have to occasionally let 3,000 people die in terrorist attacks. His 1999 collection of short stories, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men - which John Krasinski has adapted into a movie...
...smarmy coziness with Putin, an autocrat for whom he had nothing but praise, belies his fidelity to the cause of a free society. It is hardly a stretch to link the current turmoil in Georgian separatist regions with Solzhenitsyn’s nefarious fantasy of pan-Slavic nationhood. Any honest obituary of Alexander Solzhenitsyn must take into account his shelf-life as a writer and his severe failures as a political visionary. For genuine liberal critiques of totalitarian society, we can always go back to Orwell. As for a perversely beautiful celebration of the Russian spirit...