Why Don't Liberals Dream?

November, 2007

DEMOCRATS DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY AMERICANS NEED SPECTACLE IN POLITICSAl Gore's recent book The Assault on Reason decries the eclipse of reason and reality in politics. The intracta­ble war in Iraq, he says, along with the undermining of civil liberties and the response (or lack thereof) to global warming, has been conceived in fantasy and sold through spin. The former vice president's solution to this state of political affairs is simple: a return to the "rule of reason."While reading Go...