Tag: george w. bush

• Of Politics and Compassion

  April 9th, 2008

  If I were to elevate one flaw I have above all the others, it would be that I am not nearly compassionate enough. This is not to say that I’m exceptionally brutal or mean, merely that I see in myself the same flaw I see in the vast majority of others. The easiest example of […]

• OPW: Fareed Zakaria on July 4th and Citizenship

  July 7th, 2007

  Today’s Other People’s Words is a thought about the past week from Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International. Here’s what he had to say about the Fourth of July and becoming an American citizen on his PBS show, Foreign Exchange with Fareed Zakaria. For most Americans, Independence Day makes them think of fireworks, Old Glory, […]

• After Bush: How to Restore America’s Place in the World

  June 8th, 2007

  Our (that is to say the United State’s) requirement that all presidents must be natural-born is patently absurd. Though the first person to make me reconsider this rule was Arnold Schwarzenegger, who has shown himself to be an incredibly bipartisan and wise Republican in recent times, it is actually Fareed Zakaria, the Newsweek columnist and […]