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Who Should Modern America Honor?
Monday, July 13th, 2015The debate over the Confederate flag has finally forced America to confront its past. In Louisiana “the mayor of New Orleans is proposing the most comprehensive plan yet to achieve lasting racial reconciliation in the wake of last month’s mass shooting in a South Carolina black church. Mitch Landrieu wants to dismantle a historic city […]
Why is faith no longer good enough?
Wednesday, November 21st, 2012Science is essential to Western Exceptionalism. James “Hutton was, for a time, a farmer — and in that occupation, observing the process of erosion and the laying down of deposits of various materials, he realized that the landscape he saw around him could be explained by the same forces operating over immense periods of time, […]
Jesus vs Evolution: You’re Missing the Point.
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012Modern cosmology and Christianity do two separate things. Christianity at its heart is about how humans should relate to each other–“Love your enemy.” The Bible provides a justification for supporting that behavior. 1) God is good and created a world with enough stuff for people to live peacefully without destroying it. 2) Humans are never […]
Getting to 50.1%
Saturday, November 19th, 2011A friend posed the following question. “Shaking off the horserace mentality for the moment: does anyone know how the GOP candidate policy positions poll, versus the Obama record & likely campaign platform? Put simply, are these people speaking to the 51%? Here is how it see it. These candidates are like the local activist who […]
Conservative Culture of Denial
Thursday, November 10th, 2011I have no idea about what Herman Cain did or didn’t do, but Conservatives pundits and politicians are making an absurd argument about the law and morals. Dahlia Lithwick documents their insistence that sexual harassment does NOT exist. In other words, Cain can’t be guilty because sexual harassment; sexual harrassment is simply a liberal conspiracy […]