Requiem

Quiz question

Who said this? “I think people are dazzled by Obama’s rhetoric, and that people ought to begin to understand that Obama is going to be a mediocre president—which means, in our time, a dangerous president—unless there is some national movement to push him in a better direction.”

The answer: Howard Zinn in The Nation forum on the first year of Obama’s presidency. Zinn passed away yesterday at the age of 87.

Malcolm A. Kline is the Executive Director of Accuracy in Academia.