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Politics

Philosopher kings.

Juergen Habermas and Jacques Derrida issue a political manifesto.

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Politics

Kucinich for TV.

“Rather than running for president, he should be hosting a show on MSNBC.”

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Christianity in America Politics

Breached?

The Bush Administration picked a vulnerable spot in liberal doctrines about the wall separating church and state to insert the wedge of government funding.

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Christianity in America Politics

If only…

“Christian right talks of bolting GOP in 2004.”

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Conflict Politics Unitarian Universalism

Dogmatism watch.

“Liberal political beliefs have so infused our liberal religious beliefs that there is a very real doctrinal test for inclusion and acceptance in many, if not most, of our congregations.”

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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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Politics

The next antiwar.

The real goal, he says, has to be voting Bush out.

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Liberalism Politics

The radical center.

The difference between radicalism and extremism.

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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 Politics

Memo to protesters.

When antiwar protesters start to get on the nerves of a “Mother Jones” editor, some leaders of the protest movement would be wise to listen up.