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The aristocracy of feelings. (The media).
At what point in the history of the American republic, I wonder, did it become incumbent on its leaders to talk about their feelings in public--presumably as a way of signifying authenticity? In The New York Times last month we read that, in response to the news of a bomb that killed seven students, five of them Americans, in the Frank Sinatra Student Center of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, "President Bush expressed his anger," saying: "I am just as angry as Israel is. I am furious." Not that he could have felt any other way. The next day, the report was amplified: "I'm furious that innocent life is lost. However, through my fury, even though I am mad, I still ...
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