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Monthly Archives: May 2012
The Proliferation of Human Rights
A daily reading of the news indicates that human rights is everywhere. How is it that a concept that is barely 80 years old embodied in a phrase that few had heard of 40 years ago has so broadly proliferated? … Continue reading
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Romney’s Christian Nation
The bruhaha around the proposed ad to be placed by a super-PAC resurrecting Barack Obama’s relationship to Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has surfaced an interview Mitt Romney had with Sean Hannity back in February. In that interview Romney asserted that Obama … Continue reading
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America Divided
I begin this log post with a confession. I made a mistake. Not a small one, of which there of course have been many. But a big mistake. When Barack Obama had won the 2008 Iowa caucuses, I drew the … Continue reading
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Douthat’s Religion and Letter to the Times
The New York Times Book Review section (5/13/12) published a letter of mine in response to a recent review by Barnard religion professor, Randall Balmer. Balmer was critiquing the recent book Bad Religion”by Times Op-Ed columnist, Ross Douthat. Though my … Continue reading
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David Brooks Is Wrong About Online Education
I have a love-hate relationship with David Brooks. On the one hand, I like the fact that he deals with social values and ideas that underlie the issues of the day, and not merely the surface of things. He is … Continue reading
Torture as a Bragging Right
In this presidential election year, torture has again reared its ugly head. With the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, torture advocates have claimed a linkage between “enhanced interrogation techniques” and the identity of the courier who eventually … Continue reading
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