Word: authoritarianism
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...religious faith. He has long disdained the tortured moral relativism he first encountered at Yale. He doesn't come from the most introspective of families. And he has recently found an intellectual home in the secular evangelism of the neoconservatives, who posit a stark world of American good and authoritarian evil. But George W. Bush's faith offers no speed bumps on the road to Baghdad; it does not give him pause or force him to reflect. It is a source of comfort and strength but not of wisdom...
...religious faith. He has long disdained the tortured moral relativism he first encountered at Yale. He doesn't come from the most introspective of families. And he has recently found an intellectual home in the secular evangelism of the neoconservatives, who posit a stark world of American good and authoritarian evil. But George W. Bush's faith offers no speed bumps on the road to Baghdad; it does not give him pause or force him to reflect. It is a source of comfort and strength but not of wisdom...
Ensler runs her franchise in an authoritarian fashion. Colleges must adhere to strict guidelines to perform the show and run the risk of harsh legal and financial penalties if they violate them. The most egregious restriction is that only women—presumably defined as people with vaginas—are allowed to perform her play. While friends of mine involved in Harvard’s production would like to allow men to perform—especially in the “Vagina Facts” sections, which present information as opposed to personal experience—Ensler made...
...what the rest of the world thinks. Since we obviously would not accord that right to anyone else, it rests on an assumption that we are good by definition and those we attack are evil. I make no case for the miserable Iraqi leaders, but there have always been authoritarian governments with dangerous weapons and plans to get even more dangerous ones and that has not been a justification for starting...
That's debatable, given his authoritarian style and the class-warfare thuggery of some Chavista militants, like those caught on video last April shooting at opposition marchers in Caracas. "I'll strike all year if that's what it takes to get rid of this dictator," says William Lopez, 47, a Caracas construction foreman who voted for Chavez but last week marched with the opposition...