Progressive politics — like the country generally — needs more people who know how to lead rather than throw a tantrum.
Author: Chris Walton
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Too many churches?
Omar McRoberts’s four-year study of Dorchester’s impoverished Four Corners neighborhood, with 29 churches in less than 1 square mile, found that the churches are surprisingly uninvolved in their neighborhood.
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The religion variable.
“The impact of religion and religious leaders on an issue like Iraq is modest, limited to about 10 percent of the population.”
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Discrimination.
“When you weigh civilian lives against military targets, what is the proper measure of military value?”
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Perspective.
“War may be necessary sometimes, but it’s not something that a president should ever ‘feel good’ about.”
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When states fail.
“When a state destroys or is prepared to destroy its own citizens and to propel its violence outside its own borders, it becomes a criminal entity.”
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Resource round-up.
Nothing new from Baghdad’s mysterious Salam Pax since just before today’s massive bombardment; the entire blogosphere is eagerly waiting to hear from him. … The New Republic has daily updates by Gregg Easterbrook on military tactics and technology and by top-dissident Kanan Makiya on the Iraqi future, but you’ll have to visit this index to […]
The most important movement to join is the one that will insure the election of a better administration in 2004.
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Student march.
Clearly someone from the UUA was standing out front with an encouraging sign.
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Signs of war.
Between the percussive drone of the helicopters and the sirens racing past on Beacon Street, it is impossible to forget that we are at war.