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![BACKGROUND BRIEFING: RACE IN AMERICA](/images/2022/10/19/hat_thumbnail.jpg)
BACKGROUND BRIEFING: RACE IN AMERICA
Race powerfully shapes the American experience. Race will shape our lives and our sense of self whet...
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CAN A WOMAN BEAT TRUMP? THE CULTURAL STRUCTURE OF #SEXISTRIDICULE
The survival of American democracy may depend upon defeating Donald Trump in 2020. Many highly quali...
Read More![THE CALLS OF CONSCIENCE: NORTHAM AND POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY](/images/2022/10/20/pexels-phone-163104_thumbnail.jpg)
THE CALLS OF CONSCIENCE: NORTHAM AND POLITICAL EXPEDIENCY
Ralph Northam's failure to resign offers yet further proof that he should do so: he doesn't get it. ...
Read More![THE SAVED, THE DAMNED, AND THE WALL: A BACKGROUND BRIEFING FOR PROGRESSIVES](/images/2022/10/20/pexels-wall-1098769_thumbnail.jpg)
THE SAVED, THE DAMNED, AND THE WALL: A BACKGROUND BRIEFING FOR PROGRESSIVES
Despite white-Christian support for Donald Trump's wall, authentic Christian tradition remains an in...
Read More![ON PRAYING FOR ENEMIES](/images/2022/10/20/pexels-squirrel-620110_thumbnail.jpg)
ON PRAYING FOR ENEMIES
Christians are supposed to pray for our enemies, so I've been praying for Donald Trump. I have not b...
Read More![A SANE AND HONORABLE RESISTANCE: TWO MORAL PRINCIPLES](/images/2022/10/20/pexels-yoga-373955_thumbnail.jpg)
A SANE AND HONORABLE RESISTANCE: TWO MORAL PRINCIPLES
As the midterm elections loom, I've had repeated flashbacks to the moment when, in a grim little roa...
Read More![WOMEN, DECEIT, AND DISORDER: GENDER AND THE SPIRITUAL GRAMMAR OF THE WEST](/images/2022/10/20/scalesjustice_thumbnail.jpg)
WOMEN, DECEIT, AND DISORDER: GENDER AND THE SPIRITUAL GRAMMAR OF THE WEST
In the Ford-Kavanaugh hearings, Republicans on the Judiciary Committee barged straight into every wo...
Read More![WHY REASONABLE PEOPLE ARE CRAZY: ON EVIL, OPTIMISM, AND HOPE](/images/2022/10/20/aerial-view-astronomy-clouds-71116_thumbnail.jpg)
WHY REASONABLE PEOPLE ARE CRAZY: ON EVIL, OPTIMISM, AND HOPE
Watching politics has come to feel something like watching the projected track of a mid-Atlantic hur...
Read More![ON FINDING MY VOICE AGAIN: LESSONS FROM A YEAR OF SILENCE](/images/2022/10/20/IMG_1514_thumbnail.jpg)
ON FINDING MY VOICE AGAIN: LESSONS FROM A YEAR OF SILENCE
I finally had lunch with Bill last week. It took us a while to get together because his calendar i...
Read More![MAKE NO MISTAKE: HEALTH POLICY IS A MORAL ISSUE. KRISTI L. KIRSCHNER MD](/images/2022/10/20/healthpolicully_thumbnail.jpg)
MAKE NO MISTAKE: HEALTH POLICY IS A MORAL ISSUE. KRISTI L. KIRSCHNER MD
As a physician and bioethicist, I have spent the last 30 years caring for people during their most v...
Read More![THE SAVED, THE DAMNED, AND HEALTHCARE POLICY](/images/2022/10/20/match-stick_thumbnail.jpg)
THE SAVED, THE DAMNED, AND HEALTHCARE POLICY
The astounding cruelty of Trumpcare has elicited appropriate outrage: it's a tax cut for millionaire...
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WHAT "LIBERAL BIAS" MEANS—AND WHY WE NEED IT
Conservatives complain incessantly about "liberal bias" in the mainstream media. This conflict has e...
Read More![FOUR REASONS WHY THE RESISTANCE NEEDS THE CHRISTIAN LEFT](/images/2022/10/20/Church_thumbnail.jpg)
FOUR REASONS WHY THE RESISTANCE NEEDS THE CHRISTIAN LEFT
As the Trump administration flounders, the progressive Left has an unprecedented opportunity to rec...
Read More![CONFRONTING POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM: HOW TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY](/images/2022/10/20/lincoln_thumbnail.jpg)
CONFRONTING POLITICAL ABSOLUTISM: HOW TO DEFEND DEMOCRACY
[Note: in ordinary times, this would have been my next book. But the times are too urgent to wait fo...
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GIVING UP OUTRAGE FOR LENT
Like most of my friends, I've been fending off depression ever since the election. For my own menta...
Read More![How to Get Through to Republican Officials and Trump Supporters](/images/2022/10/20/dandelion_thumbnail.jpg)
How to Get Through to Republican Officials and Trump Supporters
Opposition to Mr. Trump risks fragmentation because there's simply too much to oppose, all of it hap...
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Scapegoats Are a Diversionary Tactic
Donald Trump has been blowing a deliberate smokescreen with his ill-considered and unconstitutional ...
Read MoreCan Christians Question?
Evangelical pastor Timothy Keller told New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof that he's probably ...
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The Moral Status of "Protest Votes": Three Theories
Theory #1: Consumer Choice. Here's the claim: how I vote reflects and expresses my identity. I sele...
Read More![Gay Marriage and Anglican Anxieties](/images/2022/10/20/gaymarriageananglican_thumbnail.jpg)
Gay Marriage and Anglican Anxieties
Major regional bishops ("Primates") of the Anglican Communion have lobbed a bomb in the American cul...
Read More![The Refugee Crisis and the Moral Imagination of Democracy: How to Confront Xenophobic Fundamentalists](/images/2022/10/20/refugeecrisis_thumbnail.jpg)
The Refugee Crisis and the Moral Imagination of Democracy: How to Confront Xenophobic Fundamentalists
I want to whack certain people with a Bible verse. When ostentatiously "Christian" politicians malig...
Read More![Ross Douthat's Three Mistakes](/images/2022/10/20/ross_thumbnail.jpg)
Ross Douthat's Three Mistakes
The predictable online conflagration has followed from Ross Douthat's broadsides against academic th...
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Tell the Catholic Hardliners: Safe Sex Is Moral
The upcoming report from the Vatican Synod on the Family will be scrutinized six ways from Sunday fo...
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HOUSE REPUBLICAN SHOULD REDEFINE RINO: REASONABLE INTELLIGENT NORMAL OUTFIT.
With Kevin McCarthy's departure from the race for House Majority Leader, we face the very real possi...
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URBAN ANONYMITY: WE CAN'T NAME THE TASTE OF WHAT'S MISSING.
I have tasted the salt on another man's bread. The professor made much of the image, which was Dante...
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