Winning “powerful new rights not in the streets but through the work of bureaucrats, lawyers, and judges.”
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Month: August 2003
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MLK’s strategist.
Bayard Rustin’s homosexuality finds a sympathetic hearing, but his socialism does not.
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Pale yellow.
A verbal photo.
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Liberal realism.
“The realist is anti-utopian, skeptical, and, while in no sense passive, acts from the conviction that while there are many wrongs that do indeed need to be righted, and many causes worth defending, not everything is possible.”
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Doubtless.
“A contempt for doubt is a contempt for thought.”
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More on ‘The Marriage Cure.’
The New Yorker interviews Katherine Boo about the months she spent researching the government’s plan to lift people out of poverty by their wedding rings.
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Devlin hunters.
The husband-seeker who is driving a traffic spike at Philocrites.
A bit of a boom in the Unitarian Universalist blogosphere.
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Beirutification.
“America has created … precisely the situation the Bush administration has described as a breeding ground for terrorists.”
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Got church?
“Advertisers say churches should highlight their community life, the chance to have a good sing, hear a good sermon and have a heart-to-heart chat.”