Mr. Obama's victory in this overwhelmingly white state was a powerful answer to the question of whether America was prepared to vote for a black person for president.
We need a powerful answer to why people unemployed in the north see this as a good use of their tax dollars.
More than that, it is a powerful answer to anyone that still thinks all computer games are mindless, childish or dull.
In this sense, Twitter seems to be a powerful answer to a fundamental problem parody has faced over the past several decades: as Menand noted, "the barrier between the authentic and the parodic has collapsed".
To its own weighty interrogations, "The Next Generation" offered a simple yet powerful answer: humans, once unburdened from material need, would be truly free to devote themselves to higher pursuits, like knowledge, justice, and mutual understanding.
She says abstraction is still the universal promise of the modern age, what Christian imagery used to be: a "potentially very powerful answer to this spiritual challenge of an unavailable truth, a means of expression beyond limits".
