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As the great American political philosopher Yogi Berra has said, "Prediction is difficult, especially about the future." In other words, Obama's existing underrated strength for 2012 could well be undermined by intervening events. Given how polarizing the President has become, how energized the Tea Party movement is and how...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking On Obama in '12 — Tougher Than You Think | 4/5/2010 | See Source »

Any Sunday school kid knows that the best piece of Christian theology was written not by St. Augustine or Reinhold Niebuhr but by Dr. Seuss. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! - the story of how the Whos joyfully celebrate Jesus' birth even after a spiteful wretch robs all their holiday stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Taking Up the Dr. Seuss School of Catholicism | 4/4/2010 | See Source »

In the early 1980s, the philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre related a similar concern on a broader level; although we rate many things “good” or “bad” and pretend to operate as if we have absolute definitions these values, we in fact we...

Author: By Marcel E. Moran | Title: After Virtue and Basketball | 3/12/2010 | See Source »

Fernández, born in Buenos Aires in 1874, worked on this novel between 1925 and 1938. A philosopher, humorist, writer and poet, he started “The Museum of Eterna’s Novel” when he was about fifty and rewrote it five times before his...

Author: By Elizabeth D. Pyjov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Fernández Creates a Literary Wonderland in ‘Museum’ | 3/2/2010 | See Source »

Pinker is happily married to philosopher and author Rebecca N. Goldstein. And in a video interview with Big Think, a Web site dedicated to spotlighting experts’ thoughts on an array of topics, Goldstein answers questions such as, “What is love?” and ?...

Author: By Keren E. Rohe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Let’s Talk About Love, Baby (with Pinker’s Wife) | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

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