Sympathy for Hillary

To be competitive and indeed successful in this world often demands a level of self-assurance and inner certainty that is incompatible with acknowledgment of the sober truth about oneself. This is especially the case in the upper reaches of the political game.  So perhaps we should forgive Hillary her pathetic, self-serving book, What Happened.  She is a leftist for whom the political is everything. How can one expect her, at the end of her career, to enter into the equanimity that permits a balanced view of things? She is no philosopher. Ever the activist, she is incapable of calming down sufficiently to see things in perspective.

The human predicament has its tragic sides. One is that success is too often predicated upon inordinate self-confidence and blindness to faults.