American Go E-Journal

Presidential Go?

Monday November 24, 2008

Princeton Go Club member Larry Bartels‘ (left) “Unequal Democracy” is among the books that President-Elect Barack Obama has read recently, according to the New Yorker magazine’s November 17 edition. In the book, Bartels argues that the causes of inequality are essentially political, “an insight that suggests that Obama might use economic policy to begin reversing a decades-long trend,” writes George Packer. Is this our best chance yet for a go-playing President?