A Suggestion for the Burned-Out Political Reporter George Packer

Across the Wide Missouri: Does George Packer really think the purpose of American politics is to thrill him?

George Packer: American Politics: Why the Thrill Is Gone: “The Upshot… [ran] an…

(Early) Monday Smackdown: Corey Robin: When George Packer Gets Bored, I Get Scared

I think Corey Robin nails it here. My only objection is that he does not draw the links back to earlier, early twentieth-century attacks on “boring” politics — the “cretinism of parliaments…

The horrible and sad truth is that it is easier go to Mars than to fix the condition of humanity on the Earth. Much Easier. Easier by orders of magnitude. First, there is an insidious acceptance of things as they are. Fear that raising others will lower me and mine. Clutching at what we have and a blind eye to the need of others. Going to Mars…