A.C. Grayling is a philosopher at Birkbeck College at the University of London, so I suppose he is one of those very smart academics. He seems, however, to be one of those academics who has trouble thinking his way out of a paper bag.

In Foreign Policy, Robert Hutchings and Frederick Kempe think Obama should think big, proposing a Global Grand Bargain. Seriously, that is what they call it. It is just fatuous enough to appeal to Obama.