The Anti-Manichaeist

Below is a significant paper, particularly since it comes from MIT and is part of the working-paper series of the National Bureau of Economic Research, which is the most prominent working-paper series in the economic discipline. It can be obtained for five dollars.
Institutions are what keep us from killing each other. In the […]

This appears to be a review of an important book inasmuch as it seeks toreconcile/find USAmerican identity by virtue of taking a much more hostileapproach to immigrants, particularly mexicans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/28/books/28BOOK.html

http://www.slate.com/Default.aspx?id=2101002
The author considers and critiques arguments of an “evangelical” secularist…
It also considers some of the thought of Reinhold Niebuhr, which makes for an interesting contrast with the teaching of Greg Boyd, a former professor of mine who has recently finished a sermon series titled, “The Cross and the Sword” that I critique at the following […]

http://www.garlikov.com/abortion.html
The author who comes from a pro-choice background systematically considers how there exists a fair amount of common ground between the two sides such that there shouldn’t be so much deadlock on the issue.

Apocalyptic president?
A good article that addresses the fears of liberals of a Christian Theocracy by pointing out the many differences that exist among “evangelical” Christians.

More evidence of the need to work toward a detente in the cultural wars. Our ability to work out our ongoing differences are going to be impaired to the detriment of all if this trend continues. To say nothing of the ability of the two sides to tolerate each other …
Political Split Is Pervasive

Key thesis: There is a small fraction of the US population that can be called, “Influentials” who serve as indispensable filters and promoters of the attitudes and arguments that will frame the choices voters make this fall.
In Ohio, Building a Political Echo

The two gentlemen of EuropePhilosophy in a Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jurgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida, edited by Giovanna Borradori
probably, the summary of Derrida’s confessions to the interview is the most interesting part of the book review.