Archives: December 2007
Mon Dec 17, 2007
Hillary, Bonhoeffer, and the Meaning of Truth
On his seminal work on Ethics the German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote that “it is worse for a liar to tell the truth than for a lover of truth to tell a lie.”
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Thu Dec 06, 2007
The End of a Debate
It is hard to envision anything other than the current dual-party template configuring this country’s political landscape anytime in the foreseeable future. For all intents and purposes, the Democratic and Republican parties are here to stay. And save for the few nominal party members who on occasion stray from their presumed ideological bearings, each party is correspondingly beholden - admittedly in somewhat reductive yet not wholly inaccurate characterizations - to its respective ideology; namely the liberal (benignly dubbed “progressive") and the conservative ideologies.
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