Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...taking the time to revise and amplify your report of my comments in order to correct any false impression that I am an enemy of welfare state liberalism who adheres to some marginal, exotic brand of ultra-radical politics. I embrace many of the political and moral sentiments associated with liberalism. I maintain, however, that the highest aspirations of liberalism can only be attained by a willingness to reject certain deeply entrenched social practices and by a willingness to indulge in speculative thought that some will condemn as hopelessly utopian. Randall Kennedy Harvard Law School
...issue is whether we should regulate the relation of our students to the military, and I would regard that as an act of moral imperialism," Joseph S. Nye Jr., Dillon Professor of International Affairs, said after the vote...
...stagnation, an idea that laid the groundwork for America's New Deal and Britain's welfare state. With Keynes' white-hot essay against the prohibitive peace that followed the costly war, Skidelsky has found the perfect stopping point for Volume I. Here, at 36, in the fullness of his moral indignation, the very clever boy came to ripeness as a man as well as an economist. Presuming that in this century "only economics could provide the correct reasoning for the achievement of the chivalrous society," as Skidelsky puts it, Keynes staked the claim of the economist to be king...
...classic problem has been debated and redebated: the alleged conflict between American security interests and American idealism. In one view, America's strategic position in its global conflict with Communism, which is the greatest threat to democracy, must be the first consideration. In the other view, the moral values that America stands for are more important, and ultimately more powerful politically. Much of the argument, however, is artificial. The Carter Administration tried for a while to put idealism first, by cutting aid to repressive regimes, but soon had to make exceptions for countries strategically necessary to the U.S. Conversely...
...priests and perhaps as many as 50,000 followers, including some members of Nicaragua's "base communities," mostly poor, urban religious groups without priests. The breakaways find the Cardinal's anti-Communism counterproductive and are put off by his insistence that the church, while obligated to take moral positions, must refrain from active political engagement. "The Catholic institution here is folkloric," says the Rev. Miguel Angel Casco, co-director of a pro-government religious think tank. "The revolution cannot make the new man without the church...