"Brains" and the Obama Administration

David Milne's opinion piece on intellectuals and an Obama Administration, which we featured this weekend, has been followed by the thoughts of Nicholas D. Kristof in the New York Times on the intellectualism of Obama.

Interesting divide between the two pieces which reflects, I think, the tension in some of us over the upcoming Administration. Kristof's spirit of optimism and hope shouldn't be quashed, but I do wonder if we also need to keep Milne's attention to political reality close at hand.