Elizabeth Bruenig

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

what she meant was that her values would have dictated that she feed her child first -- every mother can relate to that -- but under the circumstances she had been reduced, and it did feel like a reduction, apparently, to instinct: she jut had to eat. — PolitiTweet.org

Elizabeth Bruenig @ebruenig

and i think about that kind of reduction often with respect to nuclear weapons. you can imagine a scenario where honor, valor, duty, commitments, whatever were much more significant factors in our thinking about international aid and foreign policy, esp. in a time like this. — PolitiTweet.org