From The Atlantic, who is responsible for the past eight years of dismal American governance? “George W. Bush” is a decent answer, but we should reserve some blame for the Founding Fathers, who created a presidential office that is ill-considered, vaguely defined, and ripe for abuse. How will Bush’s legacy fare? Politico asked the experts to consider his place in history. Worse than Hoover: Alan Brinkley on the personality flaw that's made Bush one of the worst presidents ever. As George W. Bush ends his eighth and final year as president, The Daily Beast takes stock of the aftermath. Bush's Achievements: Fred Barnes on ten things the president got right. All politicians are prone to make slips of the tongue in the heat of the moment — and President George W Bush has made more than most. When a college drinking buddy invited C. Brian Smith to hang out with her parents, he tried not to sweat the fact that they lived in the White House; he even had fun — until 9/11 made watching bad movies with the president feel like a guilty pleasure America. Here is The Beast's annual 50 most loathsome people in America, 2008. Why didn’t a consensus of economists at universities and other institutions warn that a crisis was on the way? The field of social psychology provides a possible answer. Back on Tracks: A nineteenth-century technology could be the solution to our twenty-first-century problems.
