One of the stories that came out of the Tucson tragedy is that the alleged shooter, Jared Loughner, in a prior public meeting in 2007, had asked Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords the following cryptic question: “What is government if words have no meaning?” According to Loughner’s friends, Giffords’s inability to answer the question stoked the troubled young man’s ange (...)
May 20, 2011
Books
Gifts without a Giver
All Things ShiningReading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular AgeHubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorrance KellyFree Press, $26, 272 pp.
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