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Mar 10, 2016 · And yet he consistently, and with apparent sincerity, professes optimism that the world is bending toward justice. He is, in a way, a Hobbesian optimist. Video: Jeffrey Goldberg speaks with Ben...
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May 11, 2016 · Jeffrey Goldberg’s profile of the president in the April Atlantic highlights the same paradox. Obama is an optimist, Goldberg concludes, but a Hobbesian one. Goldberg writes: He has a tragic realist’s understanding of sin, cowardice, and corruption, and Hobbesian appreciation of how fear shapes human behavior.
Mar 10, 2016 · Goldberg, during one of his interviews with Obama, actually asked him, in a discussion on ISIS, about “the Hobbesian notion that people organize themselves into collectives to stave off their...
Mar 15, 2016 · In a striking phrase, Mr. Goldberg characterizes the president as a “Hobbesian optimist.” On the one hand, Mr. Goldberg says, Mr. Obama has a “tragic realist’s understanding of sin,...
His perspective is so difficult to categorize that Goldberg settles on the oxymoron "Hobbesian optimist," and then quickly promises that "the contradictions do not end there."
Mar 31, 2016 · Goldberg captures this duality by paradoxically labeling Obama a Hobbesian optimist — a person who recognizes the brutish reality of human nature while simultaneously longing for a future of peace and security.
Mar 28, 2016 · JD: Goldberg describes Obama as a “Hobbesian optimist,” which I understand to mean he’s an optimist in terms of long-term trends. However, in the short term, he believes that we live in a world where the currency of international politics is power and you have to push and influence actors to achieve your desired ends.
