ABSTRACT
In May 1993 a flurry of newspaper and magazine articles revealed that Hillary Clinton’s crusade to bring the reign of virtue to a selfish and benighted America was to be carried out under the spiritual tutelage of Michael Lerner, the Jewish leftist “thinker,” self-promoter, and editor of Tikkun magazine, a publication itself dedicated (according to its official motto appearing in each issue) “to heal, repair and transform the world.” Lerner, it turned out, had visited the White House to instruct the first lady in “the politics of meaning” and also of “caring and sharing.” “As Michael Lerner and I discussed,” Mrs. Clinton announced, “we have to first create a language that would better communicate what we are trying to say, and the policies would flow from that language.” 1
