Rod Dreher has linked to Alisdair MacIntyre’s comment just before the 2004 election defending his decision to vote for neither Presidential candidate. It generated little comment at the time, but there is the start of something important in his statement. As befits a moral philosopher, MacIntyre sees with perfect lucidity that the current American [...]
Archive for March, 2008
MacIntyre and Political Responsibility
Posted in Free Market Apologists, ideas, politics, tagged American history, Augustine, MacIntyre, McCain, Obama, Weber on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Abortion and the GOP
Posted in politics, tagged GOP, liberals, pro-life politics on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ross Douthat argues that Andrew Bacevich is (somewhat) unfair to Republicans for so comprehensively discounting their party’s sincerity on life issues. Douthat claims that while there are any number of Republicans who don’t care about overturning Roe v. Wade, GOP appointed judges came within a hair’s breadth of overturning Roe in 1992, and only Justice [...]
Freakapologists
Posted in Europe, Free Market Apologists, politics, tagged Europe, Free Market Apologists, New York on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Over the last several days, sharp writers like Reihan Salam, Megan McArdle and others have raised their voices to denounce those foolish New Yorkers who admit to experiencing a certain schadenfreude at the parlous state of Wall Street fortunes, openly rooting for the possibility that New [...]
Herbert on Iraq
Posted in culture, politics, tagged media, politics on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Yesterday’s column by Bob Herbert is well worth reading. The reluctance of the Bush administration to ask for shared sacrifice in a time of war is not exactly a sign of leadership. But this raises an even more disturbing possibility: did Mssrs. Bush and Cheney [...]
Presidential Voting and Pro-Life Liberalism
Posted in politics, tagged Clinton, McCain, Obama, pro-life liberals on March 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
For those voters who are pro-life in a comprehensive sense, who of the remaining presidential candidate is closest to their convictions? On the whole, it may well be McCain, followed closely by Obama, though it’s a tough and uncomfortable call. It is simply true that pro-life politics in the full sense– by which I [...]
Green leaves, sunshine, Europe
Posted in Uncategorized on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Un matin d’automne dans le jardin du Luxembourg
Originally uploaded by Aldor
Given the maddeningly persistent cold and ice that grips the northern half of the nation at the moment, this picture from one of Europe’s great cities is a promise of better things to come.
