Politics
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Sunday Night Journal — October 9, 2011 Let me say right off that this is a much better book than I expected, and perhaps better than you might expect if you’re familiar with David Horowitz’s political work. He’s a former left-wing polemicist/agitator turned right-wing polemicist/agitator, and in neither of those roles, where the principal objective
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I've often thought that Palin's speech accepting the vice-presidential nomination in 2008 served as a sort of test of whether one likes or dislikes middle-class evangelical Christians. (White ones, I mean; black evangelicals are treated differently, though they are very much on the same page religiously.) If you basically like them, as I do, your
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Sunday Night Journal – April 10, 2011 Not too long ago I heard someone say that the greatest problem facing the country is the intrusion of religion into politics. He was quoting Jimmy Carter, who is generally wrong about both those things, and I thought it was pretty far off the mark to say that
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NOTE: This essay appeared originally in Caelum et Terra. —July 14, 2005 Nothing At the CenterNine Popes Without a GodThe Menace of Nice PeopleFalling Leaves in Late WinterPolitics and Communion Nothing At the Center [top] [next] Remote, lofty, and vast, the inside surface of a dome is a natural spot for the placement of
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I mentioned in the previous post that I would say more about the Alabama governor’s race. You may have seen headlines saying that a black candidate, Representative Artur Davis, was defeated in his run for the Democratic nomination. No doubt casual (i.e. ignorant) observers will see that and think “Well, of course, it’s Alabama, and
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Harvey Mansfield, in “A New Kind of Liberalism: Tocqueville’s Recollections” in the March 2010 New Criterion, has this to say about Tocqueville’s view of the failures of political judgment on the part of “literary men:” The literary spirit in politics consists in seeing what is ingenious and new more than what is true, in preferring
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