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Conflict Culture Liberalism

Doomed to choose.

“Some among the Great Goods cannot live together. That is a conceptual truth.”

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Reading Scripture Theology

The Bible’s plot.

“Sinners do not get what they deserve.”

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Conflict

Rumsfeld follies.

Why would the secretary of defense insist on sending so few troops into Iraq?

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Liberalism Politics

The radical center.

The difference between radicalism and extremism.

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Conflict

Fateful choices.

Tony Blair on supporting a war for regime change in Iraq.

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Conflict

Moral protest.

A moral checklist for war protesters.

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Christianity in America Conflict

Puritanism today.

Do we need to blame Evangelicalism for the pervasive tendency to invoke God’s blessing when troops go to battle?

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Conflict

Protests in Portland.

A Unitarian Universalist student minister describes his night in jail.

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Conflict Liberalism Politics

Change of plans.

Todd Gitlin explains the “inauspicious paradox of the late ’60s: as the war became less popular, so did the antiwar movement.”

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Conflict

Scared yet?

Bush administration hawks may be deliberating setting up a “nightmare scenario”: a rapid series of wars in the Middle East.