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Conflict

False hurrah.

“You wanted a quick, clear victory, and you got it. But don’t flatter yourself. You haven’t changed the world in 19 months. You’ve only changed the subject.”

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Utah

Irony, Utah.

“Utah! Where ideas connect”?

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Conflict Liberalism

More than words.

Neither Christian faith nor liberal principles requires us to embrace weakness, passivity, or even dependency on persuasion without an ultimate appeal to legitimate kinds of coercion.

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Conflict

Planitarchis.

“Without the United States, the world cannot act on the global scale that a shrinking world and an expanding world population require.”

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Conflict Liberalism

Paul Berman watch.

Reviews of and by the author of “Terror and Liberalism.”

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Journalism

Humble byline.

Wait, who is op-ed writer Tenzin Gyatso?

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Conflict Culture Liberalism

Mother Jones review.

George Packer identifies four habits of the besieged mind, coping strategies that also keep us from thinking clearly.

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Conflict Politics

Bad faith.

“A rump group of our colleagues put these words — words that we find loathsome — into our mouths.”

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Theology

Humanism in the news.

“A new embrace of Humanistic reason is needed to … prevent us from going down a path toward theocratic despotism.”

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Conflict

Reconciliation.

The story of the Amy Biehl Foundation in South Africa.