More to read by the author of “The End of Politics.”
Month: June 2003
Bloggers give their abstractions more than a “nouny place to live”; we sometimes transform their balcony into a stadium, and send the abstractions out fighting.
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Subscriber overboard!
Those “Nation” and “National Review” magazine cruises are chock full of true believers and tend to be, well, a tad geriatric.
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Sermon contest entry!
“Anything that helps you to see the world clearly and nakedly, to respond to the world with the fullness of your being, to struggle to understand all things accurately in their interdependence, is devotion, as basic a need as food and water.”
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Iran.
“Several hundred dissident intellectuals, including several clerics, issued a statement supporting the right of Iranians to criticize their government.”
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Almost cannibalism.
Plus: Elaine Pagels, Isaac Newton, and Nathaniel Hawthorne in the New York Times.
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Best sermon contest!
It’s the first-ever Philocrites Treasure Hunt!
“An individual can take a vacation, but it takes a society to create a holiday.”
“But what are the serious alternatives to the nation-state as a form of political life?”
Democrats are making a fatal mistake by keeping religion under wraps in national politics.