August 26, 2009

Noam Chomsky’s Trick for Avoiding Political Letdown: Low Expectations

Obama hasn’t disappointed Chomsky yet--but the linguist didn’t expect much from him anyway.
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Pressure From the Left

It is becoming clear that Obama’s honeymoon period is drawing to a close. From health care reform, to civil liberties, to racism, to the Wall Street bailout, some of the staunchest opposition to White House policies is coming from the very forces that swept Obama into the Presidency. Big Think asked several leading voices of the American left about their concerns that government isn’t living up to expectations. To most of them, no matter who is in the White House, some things in government never change.