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Neusner, in his Rhinebeck, N.Y., home, is equally unfazed by the Pope's repurposing of his argument. "You can't expect him to get circumcised," he says. "He's still a Christian, and I'm still a practitioner of Judaism. But the two positions can consider the same text and identify where they converge and where they part company. I think it's terrific...
...presiding over a vigorous question-and-answer session with Sen and other panelists, the center’s outgoing director, Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy Dennis F. Thompson, expressed disappointment that the panel could not go on longer. “I’m eager to continue the argument with each of them,” he said. Among the panelists—all former fellows of the center—were University of Pennsylvania President Amy Gutmann ’71, who has written a book with Thompson, Samantha Power, a Kennedy School of Government professor and Pulitzer...
...recent oped by Michael Schor (“Ignorance on Israel,” May 14) demonstrated true ignorance, and an unwillingness to analyze issues objectively. His willingness to pejoratively castigate academics (see Stephen Walt) who disagree with his point of view demonstrates a naiveté in intellectual argument. There are many legitimate reasons to disagree with the policies of the Israeli government, despite claims of it being an ally of “democracy.” The state of Israel is democratic insofar its Jewish citizenry...
...based on the American Bar Association model rules, which refer to "Conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice". And since the Acting Attorney General - the arbiter of all things legal in the Administration - had already decided that the eavesdropping program as constituted was illegal, there's a good argument that Gonzales at least attempted to interfere with the administration of justice and perhaps, as the Texas rule puts it, to obstruct justice...
...soul of a Democrat or that Ronald Reagan was a divorced cinemactor, as long as he was a kindred political spirit. At a time when you couldn't always get two Baptists of different stripes to work together on a bake sale, Falwell founded the Moral Majority on the argument that fundamentalist Christians, Orthodox Jews, conservative Roman Catholics and Mormons had so much in common politically that they should overlook their theological differences. It was no good attending only to the Kingdom of Heaven, he argued, when a culture war was raging and the Supreme Court was in favor...