I used to write about politics or at least quote some of the latest political stories on my blog. I've fallen silent because I don't know what to say these days. It's certainly not that I think things are going so well that there's nothing to comment on or nothing to advocate for. Rather, of the many, many issues out there, I don't know which of the few I should focus on. Hence the current silence. Maybe I should stay silent and listen instead.

(I will say, however, that when the latest issue of The New York Review arrived in my mailbox, I read Mark Danner's Iraq: The New War and thought of the debate between Danner and Christopher Hitchens staged on campus those many months ago.)