Tyranny cannot effectively be challenged, nor can democracy be extended in the world, without American leadership.
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Liberalism’s Iraq dilemma.
George Packer, author of the most compelling book I’ve read recently on American political history, Blood of the Liberals, knows what it means to be a committed but self-questioning liberal. In this week’s New York Times Magazine, he asks many of the most influential liberal intellectuals why they are not visible in the emerging antiwar […]
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The question of empire.
The choice isn’t between isolationism and empire, as the all-or-nothing people on the political fringes want us to believe. The choice is between the responsible and irresponsible uses of American power.
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An idea worth defending.
The Rev. David O. Rankin, in a ten-point statement of widely-held Unitarian Universalist beliefs, writes: We believe in the worth and dignity of each human being. All people on earth have an equal claim to life, liberty, and justice — and no idea, ideal, or philosophy is superior to a single human life. While I […]
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Conflict and control.
There’s a proverb that says that any kind of peace is preferable to any kind of war, but I don’t think that’s true.