After visiting her husband recently in prison — where they have been permitted to communicate through glass — she told supporters, he was «discouraged about the
lack (
seemingly)
of action from the new administration.»
Sandel might indeed be Miliband's bone fide «new guru», but a closer scrutiny into the role
of the guru makes grim reading in two senses: firstly, gurus have little long - term influence on the ideational trajectories
of political parties and their attendant political projects that their ideas are intended to service; and secondly, the guru's
lack of long - term impact suggests that the status
of «ideas» and their
action - orientation is demoted below the
seemingly more perennial concerns
of statecraft and personality.