Politicians Shouldn’t “Wear God”
I’m trying to think of a more superficial assessment of American religiosity than this Washington Post piece about Romney capturing the “God vote” at the debate, but nothing comes to mind. Zack Beauchamp calls...
Category: Politics
Biden and Ryan to Debate Rush’s Nomination for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
I learned from my brother-in-law, a respectable devotee of Rush, that the band has been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, a nice but more or less meaningless honor. Their sound...
The Terror of Drones
Conor Friedersdorf summarizes a recent report on the consequences of U.S. drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan. While one occasionally hears about nameless dead innocents, the full terror caused by these drones...
To Hell with the Other
Mitt Romney’s “not elegantly stated” remarks expressed a disposition that’s not exclusive to him or to his base. As I wrote previously, disdain for otherness–a deep-seated and disordering belief that being other is bad–remains...
No, Mr. President, We Are Not The One Indispensable Power in the World
Yesterday President Obama, in a 30 minute campaign speech in Las Vegas, idolized the United States as the much needed “one indispensable power in the world,” demonstrating once again that the fantasy describing him...
Apology: A Sign of Weakness or Strength?
Believe me, there are MANY ways to fairly criticize Obama. But saying he’s on an “apology tour” or is like Jimmy Carter is deeply insane. — David Sessions (@davidsess) September 12, 2012 I agree...
The Slavery of the Same
Conor P. Williams praised Michelle Obama’s DNC speech for combating the ugly belief that the president is something other than a real American. “It was a speech that demanded the president’s recognition as one...
Religious Faith, Universal Healthcare, and the Inevitability of Moral Dilemmas
The other day, Sarah Posner and Mollie Ziegler Hemingway discussed religious faith and the Republican National Convention on Bloggingheads. Most interesting to me in the exchange was Mollie’s arguing that Catholics opposed to the HHS...
A Theology of Big Government?
Introducing Cardinal Timothy Dolan at the GOP convention yesterday, Speaker John Boehner said, “He’s a man who knows that the preferential option for the poor doesn’t translate into a preferential option for big government.” ...
The Trouble with Self-Evident Human Rights: An Example
The Declaration of Independence begins with a bit of bad philosophy: to wit, positing, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator...
