The Gift of Roger Cohen

We, humanity, are fortunate to have the likes of Roger Cohen writing for us now. And we are fortunate that his paper, the New York Times, is read around the globe.

He mentions the new buzz phrase, Smart Power, employed by HRC in her confirmation hearing, in a way that while giving it some due, also said we can do better. That's how I responded to it as well when I first heard it.

It's a slogan, not a philosophy. Slogans are easy to remember, so as to be regurgitated on cue, like "tastes great, less filling". Philosophies are internalized, and felt, and only a few, like Roger Cohen, are capable of articulating them. As an English professor once observed to me, having read my small collection of poems, "The Robert Frosts of this world come along only now and then", and, "Don't quit your day job."

Roger Cohen shouldn't quit his day job either.

Leanderthal, Lighthouse Keeper