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...speech titled "The Moral Test of Our Generation," John Edwards cast his race against front runner Hillary Clinton as a moral crusade. By accepting corporate campaign cash, he argued, she perpetuates a culture of corruption. Edwards made no explicit references to God or faith but decried "winning elections at the cost of selling your soul" and cited "the one moral commandment that makes us Americans: to give our children a better future than we received." While his opponents have more robust religious-outreach efforts, the Methodist Southerner may have hit just the right notes for cultural conservatives. [SECULARIST=1] [THEOCRAT...
...When Abraham Lincoln created the U.S. Department of Agriculture, half the country still farmed. He once said farmers were "neither better nor worse than any other people," just "more numerous." (They also received inordinate political flattery, "the reason of which I cannot perceive, unless it be that they can cast more votes.") Under F.D.R., 1 in 5 Americans was still a farmer...
...Literatures department, who aided the members of Teatro with mounting the production. “I admire this group of students who have dared to delve into Lorca’s universe, which is so complex and so intense.”The first obstacle Teatro faced was casting. “Automatically, you limit your talent pool,” said Hanley. “There is a good third of the cast for whom Spanish is an absolute second language. Their progress and talent have been amazing.” The actors said that it is challenging...
...long political darkness,” he made a claim about the potential of power that coincides very obviously with this conception of social change. Often, the opposition to this tactic—a system-internal approach, let’s call it—is cast by conservatives and liberals as irrational and impractical; leftists are pilloried for prematurely rejecting all things that bear the mark of “the Man.” However, the radical critique of system-internal social change depends on a much more sophisticated argument than its detractors realize. According to the egalitarian...
When Douglas Coupland popularized the phrase “Generation X” in his 1991 debut novel of the same name, he cast himself as the passive observer. In stepping back from time and cultural context, he held all the naivety, hypocrisy, and sheer idiocy of North America’s consumer-driven society in our collective face for us to laugh at. And laugh we did, all the way up until the bizarre, self-referential ending to 2006’s quirky “JPod.” But something has been lost in his latest work...