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Op-Ed: A Few Things I Wish Barack Obama Had Said

By Garret Keizer

…less categorically that if you can see Governor Palin as President of the United States, you are an ass. On “Spreading the Wealth” To my opponent’s repeated contention that this represents the core of my economic program, I have but three words to say: Guilty as charged. Guilty as charged—and worthy to be sent to the same circle of hell in which John the Baptist cries without ceasing, “Let him who has two coats give to him who has none.” On the D…

Who Would the Buddha Bomb?

By Danny Fisher

…lutions: I think what has to take priority now, since the formation of the United Nations, are the conditions for just warfare that are laid down within their charter. One is that a nation is justified in going to war only if it attacked by another nation and it needs to take immediate defensive action to prevent the prospect of immediate violence and destruction before the U.N. can intervene. The other condition is that collective warfare is just…

What’s Wrong with Wright’s Words

By Andrew Murphy

…of September 11 can be traced to some basic consequences of something the United States, as a political entity, did. For Falwell it was secularizing the public square and legalizing abortion. For Wright, it was supporting state terrorism and using atomic weapons. To be sure, Falwell was widely criticized for his remarks, and issued a rather tepid apology. But he certainly was not repudiated or renounced by leading Republicans. To the contrary, Jo…

Welcome to the (New) Gilded Age: Supreme Court Delivers the Goods to Corporations

By Peter Laarman

…effective judicial sanction to a Republican coup d’etat; however, Citizens United is not merely court-sanctioned, but court-engineered, amounting to a judicial coup d’etat executed in behalf of the already-ascendant money power in our society. Noting that this ruling will likely benefit Republicans much more than Democrats is really beside the point; the point—the well-sharpened and deadly point—is that Citizens United will vastly strengthen the h…

Same-Sex Marriage May Lead to Polygamy, But So What?

By William E. Smith

…the increasing loss of Protestant control of sexual mores and laws in the United States. The legalization of polygamy would only mark the next step in the decoupling of church and state with regard to matrimony. But Sprigg does not rest his case against polygamy (and same-sex marriage) on religious liberty claims alone. He banks on conservative gay activist Jonathan Rauch’s case against polygamy to stress the social harms of polygamy. After summa…

American Civil Religion is Dead, Long Live American Civil Religion

By Peter Laarman

…work for you? Can you say, following the formulation of the late Manning Marable, that all of the celebrated might and wealth of the United States derive from a brutal regime of “force and fraud” and also say, with equal conviction, that the American experiment is not yet over? Our dissidents, labor agitators especially, always festooned their marches and rallies with American flags, making the point that theirs was a higher patriotism, their pro…

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Catholic Voter Guides

By Kate Childs Graham

…to make explicit their commitment to the global common good.” The Bad: The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops put out its regular guide entitled Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility from the Catholic Bishops of the United States. This guide is quite lengthy at 42 pages. They set forth ten policy goals for voters to consider ranging from abortion to same-sex marriage to immigration reform to war…

What Netanyahu Learned from Texas

By Sarah Posner

…et by submitting the most extreme version of the bill—the one that demotes Arabic as an official language, that deletes “equality” as a goal of the Jewish state, that grants the right of way to “Jewish” aspects of policy and secondary status to democratic principles, that opens the door to deporting non-Jews, in particular African asylum seekers, and to depriving Arabs of rights and privileges, and to neutering the Supreme Court as the last vestig…

Talking Prop. 8: Of Rites and Rights

By Peter Laarman

…nited States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. History doesn’t repeat…

Addressing the Culture War Without Touching the Culture War

By Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins

…y that both Protestantism and American Enlightenment were the major bodies promoting a tradition of moderate reform in the United States (he readily acknowledges minority groups and exceptional individuals outside this tradition who sought to incorporate women, blacks, Jews, etc. into the consensus). Thus, despite Darwinism, the rise of the social sciences, and an advancing secular culture, something like a coalition once existed between the major…