Word: moralizers
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...world where our failings cannot be easily covered up by ecclesiastical power, or bought off with other people's money, or simply ignored? This gulf between us and them cannot now be concealed. We kneel and pray; we donate our time and money; we have attempted to explain the moral lessons we have learned in the real world of family and sex and work and conflict. But so many church leaders--from the Pope on down--do not seem to hear or even care. And why should they? They are not answerable...
...Tuesday and Thursday" drops us in on Paul Chloe, a thirtyish civil-servant during his mid-week days off. He's a jerk. Arrogant and acerbic, he snaps at his wife and puts down his friends. But he seems more desperate than angry. His moral compass has gone haywire. He shoplifts a can of tuna because "food always tastes better when it's free," but helps an old man who has fallen to the curb. On Tuesday night, after boozing it up with his "pals" he snatches a wad of cash from the hands of an unsavvy pedestrian. Where...
...have a gentle mien, but his words roil Washington. He has used his mouthful of a title--Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services for Children and Families--to crusade for the government to take a more active role in promoting marriage. Horn believes that sustaining marriages is moral and cost efficient. Nearly three-fourths of children in single-parent families will experience poverty by age 11, vs. about one-fifth of children in two-parent families. Children from intact families are less likely to give birth out of wedlock or get in trouble with the law--both of which...
...authority, and like The Shield, The Wire is a daring and timely one. We responded to 9/11 with a national narrative of teamwork: unite behind our institutions, and let's roll. (Waco? Diallo? Old news.) The rhetoric of good and evil was ascendant; anything in between smacked of moral equivalence. And yet the news since then has been Enron, the FBI, the church: institutions failing their charges...
...awesome had entered our lives, a product of the greatest of the sciences, of the discipline I revered." Before long, he found himself seconded to work with an ?lite group ordered to provide the Soviet Union with an identical weapon. Ever a patriot, he had no political doubts or moral qualms about the weapon he would help to design. Those would come later, as he calculated the number of deaths and genetic mutations that could be expected over generations. Sakharov pleaded with Khrushchev to discontinue bomb testing, and wept in "unbearable bitterness, shame and humiliation" when his urgings...