November 7, 2008

Diggins on Obama and McCain

By EVAN R. GOLDSTEIN

When I catch John Patrick Diggins on the telephone to talk about the election and presidential leadership, he has just returned from an event at the Century Foundation. At the lunch table, he comments gruffly, "All people spoke about was winning the election, no one seemed to be concerned with the problems of the future." A surreal gap exists, he says, between the often frivolous horse-race chatter about tactics and strategy that dominates the national conversation and the grim reality that

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