The Readings section of the February 2009 Harper’s (subscription required) has an excerpt from Eula Biss’s “Time and Distance Overcome,” that struck me as appropriate reading for today, a day when the nation is celebrating the inauguration of the first African-American president and the school semester started with discussions about the future of communication…
During Obama’s address I remarked that in just a few minutes he had subtlely but substantially rewritten, recomposed what America was for the citizens of America and the world. The Wordle of his address bears that out: