Not a big one, but emblematic: Yesterday, during an interview with Mel Gibson, James Dobson referred scathingly to critics of Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ who spoke without having first seen the… Continue reading
A number of things Guckert said in relation to Counterbias’s softball questions make comment almost too easy: What would liberal bloggers do next that they could have any influence on? Character assassination and… Continue reading
Listening to so many who opposed the Iraq war, like NPR’s Daniel Schorr, now saying that Bush may have been right, that his invasion of Iraq may have opened the door to democracy… Continue reading
This may be old hat to most of you, but it bears repeating: From Plato to Leo Strauss and his neo-con children, the idea of the ‘noble lie’ has had a terrible fascination… Continue reading
There’s a Quaker statement from 1656 that, I think, says something important to us diarists and bloggers: “these things we do not lay upon you as a rule or form to walk by,… Continue reading
Sometimes, the legacy of the New Critics gets the best of me, and I end up getting carried away with a close reading. That’s happened today with “no child left behind” and the… Continue reading
My understanding of the teachings of Jesus is that he encouraged people to believe and act for the love of God. Their own salvation was not so much a goal but a reward.… Continue reading
“Split the difference”: that’s what passes, more and more, for objectivity. One person takes one position, another an opposing on. The truth, the crier for ‘objectivity’ pleads, must be somewhere in the middle.… Continue reading
Over the Bridge This morning, for the first time since the 11th, my dog and I walked across the Brooklyn Bridge. An important occasion for me, it brought me back to the grandest… Continue reading
Memories of WTC Last spring, while I was buying an Italian ice on the corner of Chambers and Greenwich, a woman walked up to me and asked, “Where is the World Trade Center?”… Continue reading