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...Indeed, such a withdrawal will likely lead to even greater alienation and animosity between these two vital American groups. More importantly, it will end a long alliance between blacks and Jews (such as that forged by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Abraham Joshua Heschel and more recently by Michael Lerner and Cornel West), an alliance which has as its greatest strength a shared sense of struggle to affirm that which is most deeply human about us all. It would be a truly sad situation if, years from now, in the histories of American blacks and Jews, it was recorded that...
...vogue. "It always depends on the quality of the work. If My Fair Lady came out tomorrow, people would love it." He'd eventually like to do a traditional musical with original songs, he says. But that, of course, means finding songs. Says Allen, sighing: "If only Lerner and Loewe were alive...
...seldom have they done it so relentlessly. And seldom have they had such a wellspring of bigthink to draw on. There's Ben Wattenberg's Values Matter Most, read and admired by Clinton. There's "the politics of meaning," a phrase Hillary Rodham Clinton borrowed from philosopher Michael Lerner, creating a brief buzz that inspired him to make it the title of a recent book. There's Gertrude Himmelfarb's jeremiad The De-Moralization of Society, championed by Newt Gingrich. And there's former professor Bill ("Book of Virtues") Bennett, the Republicans' moralist-intellectual, who has crafted much...
...such brakes have no place in liberal dogma. The classically liberal take on human nature is that there is no such thing: we are blank slates, innocent at birth; it is only society--capitalism, in the standard indictment--that corrupts us. Thus, Lerner claims, people get divorced because they have "internalized the ethos of the marketplace, and view the other person primarily in terms of what one can get out of the exchange...
...Lerner is an easy target--an old-school leftist. But his reluctance to blame people for things is archetypally liberal and persists even among moderate liberals who have jumped on the virtue bandwagon. Just as conservatives think they can restore a moral center without making concessions to government activism, liberals think they can revive the language of morality without being judgmental. In his book The Spirit of Community, Etzioni promises as much. He says we can have a "moral revival" without "busybody meddling into our personal affairs," without "Puritanism or oppression," without "self-righteousness." We should "discourage" divorce...