Word: believingness
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Voting, of course, does not a democracy make. It's become fashionable to insist that true democracy requires more than elections?it also demands the rule of law, honest bureaucrats, the protection of minorities and so on. (By those criteria, Indonesia still has some way to go.) But that doesn...
The problem with having one part of your life walled off from the other is trying to decide what belongs behind the wall. It gets bizarre. How bizarre was it when I was a kid that I didn't want my daddy to know that I was giving part of...
As security deteriorated last year--U.S. military fatalities rose from one a day last summer to four a day by November--Bremer came under heavy pressure from Washington to put a plan in place that would return sovereignty to the Iraqis sooner rather than later. Bremer was summoned back to...
Whenever a President has called the country to arms, it has been in the name of a larger good and a higher calling. But the argument is especially freighted when the U.S. is confronting an Arab world that is already deeply suspicious of its intentions. "People don't want a...
Pittsburgh, Pa., Bishop Donald Wuerl has recently asserted that "sometimes a single issue will be so important that it overrides a whole range of lesser issues." Yet many experts who confirm abortion's import insist that the issue does not impose lockstep political behavior on believing voters. The church allows...