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Yet what the NSA's documents show is that Americans have been engaged in precisely the activity that the US accused the Chinese of doing.
What de Kerangal treats in extended passages as a mechanical – or medical – fix takes flight when all those involved are forced to engage with precisely what that means.
The Supreme Court is in danger of engaging in precisely the kind of "judicial activism" that conservatives railed against for a generation or more.
Instead, she announced that the agency would engage in precisely the notice-and-comment rulemaking process that the Obama Administration chose to skip.
So it's dismaying that on the subject of "too big to fail" banks, he's engaging in precisely the kind of overwrought conspiracy-mongering that he's otherwise so adept at puncturing.
And this is why all exhortations to "formulate demands", embrace structure, or turn to "everyday life" miss the point: the activists' unwillingness to engage is precisely what has allowed them, up to now, to disrupt the timetable of official politics.
When college students in a diner argue heatedly over the policies of the United States vis-à-vis its adversaries, they engage in precisely the behavior that our system relies upon to generate better policies in the future.
Yet given the opportunity to engage in precisely the kind of political theater that makes things less brutal, Geithner seems above the venue, his opponents, and the necessary tactics.
It was, rather, that they are inevitable, and that for the government to hold speakers liable in damages for inadvertent false statements can have a severe "chilling effect" on their willingness to engage in precisely the sort of "uninhibited, robust, and wide-open" public discourse that our democracy needs.
