“Regulating Wall Street is an Old Testament sort of affair: Like Leviticus, it is all about the persnickety details”
Regulating Wall Street is an Old Testament sort of affair: Like Leviticus, it is...
Category Archives: Politics in America
“It would not be quite right to say that Magna Carta has withstood the ravages of time”
It would not be quite right to say that Magna Carta has withstood the...
“Dignity is a rather elusive and malleable concept compared with more concrete qualities such as race and sex”
Dignity is a rather elusive and malleable concept compared with more concrete qualities such...
“Magna Carta’s unusual legacy in the United States is a matter of political history”
Magna Carta’s unusual legacy in the United States is a matter of political history....
“Substituting compulsory morality with compulsory liberalism simply shifts the burden of coercive state power from one group to another”
Obergefell would be a tragic irony if it succeeded in finally closing the door...
“A better idea is to remove Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill and replace him with a distinguished woman from American history”
Treasury is proposing to put a woman’s portrait alongside Hamilton’s on the $10 bill,...
“…’folks’ serves as a softener of rhetorical edges. It suggests a mode of kinship and self-conscious informality that politicians increasingly default to, perhaps as an overcorrective to the inflated wealth of those same politicians”
…“folks” serves as a softener of rhetorical edges. It suggests a mode of kinship...
“It’s never as simple and humdrum as being for or against the Clintons”
…it’s different from politics as usual. It’s politics as a peculiar form of psychological...
“The secular humanist liberation movement…should not encourage nonbelievers to turn away from their own intellectual heritage…”
As nonbelievers tangle with traditional Christians over same-sex marriage and navigate conflicts between conservative...
“The president’s views on Israel were forged during his time in Chicago, when he became friendly with a group of prominent Jewish Democrats…”
The president’s views on Israel were forged during his time in Chicago, when he...