Word: benightedness
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Why this panic about certainty and people who display it? It is not just, as conventional wisdom has it, that liberals think the last election was lost because of a bloc of benighted Evangelicals. It is because we are almost four years from 9/11 and four years of moral certainty...
DIED. BRENDA FASSIE, 39, South Africa's first globally renowned black pop star; from an asthma-induced heart attack; in Johannesburg. Called the Madonna of the Townships, the diminutive diva was known as much for her hot temper, lesbian affairs and drug abuse as for her music-a pulsating blend...
To many ordinary Iraqis, for whom sadistic brutality was a regular feature of life under Saddam, the scenes in Fallujah provoked outpourings of shame over the mob's desecration of the dead. Because of the sheer savagery of the attack and the likelihood of U.S. retaliation, last week's massacre...
Finally, the game of counterfactual history is dangerous. That colonial subjects could not have themselves come out of poverty and established democracies not only assumes that these were the intentions of empire, it denies any agency to the populations of the colonies. Number-crunching may show that empire was necessary...
With due respect for his desire that Christ's sacrifice be understood by all and for the gratitude among Christians that a Hollywood deity has finally made an accomplished and utterly unironical Christian film, one can only hope that he has it wrong. The Christian story includes joy, astonishment, prophecy...