February 2010 Issue [Notebook] The mendacity of hope Adjust Share by Roger D. Hodge , This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 2009- 21st century Barack Obama Executive power Garry Wills Military policy National security Politics and government Politics and war United States More from Roger D. Hodge Speak, Money From The Mendacity of Hope: Barack Obama and the Betrayal of American Liberalism (HarperCollins). Hodge is the former editor of Harper’s Magazine. As we prepare yet another round of offerings… Creative destruction The Naughts This essay appears as the introduction to Submersion Journalism: Reporting in the Radical First Person from Harper’s Magazine, to be published this month by the New Press. Hodge is the… Adjust Share