Tag: By David Bromwich
David Bromwich: Symptoms of the Bush-Obama Presidency: The Saved and the Sacked
August 2011![]() |
On January 21, 2009, Barack Obama promised to return America to “the high moral ground.” Two and a half years later, we’re still waiting. |
David Bromwich: The Embarrassments of Empire: Washington Wonders What to Say about Arab Freedom
March 2011![]() |
A person suffers embarrassment when something true about himself emerges in spite of reasonable efforts to conceal it. It is the same with nations. |



