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...paleo-” conservatives such as myself will continue to protest the changes ripping through our society, but I expect at some point in the foreseeable future, as the pace of social change escalates and “wedge issues” become ever more salient, the tensions between conservatives will boil to the surface and the movement as a whole will weaken and divide. I’d like to hold faith in the ability of people to make the right choice, as my friend Dave does, but find myself uncomforted by mankind’s previous experience...
Lesser said the issue is particularly salient because of three recent developments—an abuse of power in Texas redistricting, a Supreme Court decision that upheld a deeply partisan redistricting in Pennsylvania, and new technologies that allow demographers to accurately assess location and voting behavior. These technologies resulted in a 99 percent reelection rate for House incumbents in 2004, Lesser said...
Indeed, though the book is filled with fascinating research from key periods in the transition, all you really need to read to digest the most salient pieces of evidence is the last chapter, in which Shleifer introduces the systematic comparisons to other middle-income countries that tie together his “normal” thesis...
...baby—if you come to the Salient soda hour this weekend, the cops might arrest you. For stealing my heart...
Jesus the Pharisee has significant omissions: it does not touch on such salient matters as the Resurrection, the messiahship of Jesus, or the belief that his death atoned for the sins of all humanity. Lawrence Schiffman, a critic of the book who is a professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at New York University, says that Falk "has bought a stereotype of the School of Shammai, who in reality were good Jews and good Pharisees." Schiffman believes that there will not be a scholarly acceptance of the book's thesis. He maintains that anti-Judaism in early Christian writings...