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...something "fresh" to write about. So it's admittedly a bit odd that we chose Andy Delbanco as America's best social critic. He is a historian of American literature, a man who looks back for a living, who reads and rereads, even in middle age, books like Moby-Dick and poems by Walt Whitman, stuff most of us leave behind after 11th grade...
...since January 1999, when his colleagues turned to the former high school economics teacher and wrestling coach after Newt Gingrich was dumped and his designated successor Bob Livingston suddenly quit. Hastert was widely dismissed as a pawn of more conservative and less presentable back-room operators like majority leader Dick Armey and majority whip Tom DeLay during the last two years of the Clinton Administration. Democrats called him the accidental Speaker, who they predicted would return to the back benches when they retook the House in the 2000 elections. "It was overwhelming," Hastert says of the first few months...
...have the most to fear from the guys across the aisle in Congress. He and Democratic leader Dick Gephardt are barely on speaking terms, and have locked horns over everything from scheduling votes on bills to the appointment of the House chaplain. Democrats complain that behind Hastert's aw-shucks mien is a take-no-prisoners pol. When they belittle him as DeLay's puppet, Hastert just smiles. "Nobody's running the show but me." While it's true that DeLay was instrumental in seeing Hastert, then his deputy whip, get the top job, the Speaker...
...heavy lifting is going to have to come out of the House," Hastert told TIME. In the beginning, Bush took the G.O.P.-controlled House for granted and focused his attention on the troublesome, evenly split Senate, where his party clung to power by dint of Dick Cheney's tie-breaking vote. But once Democrats took control of the upper chamber, Bush needed Hastert to pass bills as close to the President's liking as possible so he could have maximum bargaining room when the Senate and House meet in conference. For Hastert, "this could be a defining moment," says G.O.P...
...world's a ship on its passage out," Melville wrote in Moby-Dick, "and the pulpit is its prow." That may have been true at one time--but times have changed, moral authority has dispersed, the 1960s and '70s toppled many a preacher from his rostrum, along with other symbols of authority. "That created a trauma in the churches," argues William Schweiker, professor of theological ethics at the University of Chicago. "The first reaction was to encourage a therapeutic emphasis on pastoral care." When it came to preaching, as opposed to social activism and counseling, the mainline churches lost their...