Word: moralizers
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...generally a well-behaved child. As a teenager, he dabbled in weed-smoking, and cigarette-smoking, and drank Boone's on occasion, but never committed any major transgressions. He was a good child, brought up by a pair of strict Catholic parents who instilled in him a top-notch moral code. It's a square story through and through. In its story arc, The Longest Trip Home mimics Marley & Me - a life well-lived that requires a death to deliver its message about how to live one's life well. Nothing new here at all, though many readers will...
...stripes, have no problem in claiming a leadership role for the U.S. - in fact, they regard it as axiomatic that the U.S. should "lead" the world. As David Rieff argued recently in World Affairs, "President Bush has argued that the war in Iraq was a demonstration of America's moral leadership, whereas his liberal opponents claim that Iraq was where the U.S. forfeited its moral leadership. What no one questions is the certainty that we are capable of, indeed accustomed to, exercising such leadership, and, more basically still, that our ideals as a nation entitle...
...this context, it made sense to think, and speak, of "American leadership." If you were an American policymaker in 1945, you did not actually need to make a moral claim to leadership. You did not need to argue that because America was an idea, a city on a hill, the last, best hope of mankind, it had a right and responsibility to remake the world. It was much simpler than that. American leadership in the post-1945 world was not a moral aspiration, or a policy goal, at all. It was, as the Marxists would say, an objective reality...
...Literature lovers around the world are shocked and many cannot suppress their urge to judge a man whose work captures the erosive effects of totalitarianism on the human soul and whom many consider(ed) a moral authority. But given the questionable evidence behind the suggestion, a lot of the reactive commentary has been amounted to a misguided barrage of condemnation and venom. It is a tragedy that so many have rushed to hasty conclusions and completely ignored the arguments suggesting that Kundera could well be guiltless...
...hierarchical tradition like Catholicism, debates don't happen very often. Right now, however, American Catholics are going through a revival of the arguments that took place in the 1980s between bishops who believed abortion ought to be the top political and moral focus of the church and the camp led by the late Cardinal Joseph Bernardin that argued for a more "consistent ethic of life...