The Anti-Manichaeist

kudos to Better than Therapy for helping me find the Mark Noll article. I find Rick to be a natural compadre in the quest to improve the overall distribution of political habits of deliberation about politics among evangelicals.
Mark Noll writes that he doesn’t plan to vote because he has derived stances from […]

I’m a little burned out over the election and its growing acrimony.
I won’t have time to watch the debates and spin them and I’ve pretty much said all I have to say on many of the issues. I feel like often times blogs are ways for ego-maniacs with lots of strong opinions […]

I have not seen the movie, “Bush’s Brain” that is about Rove’s tactics for winning elections, but I would like to watch it. Josh Marshall has his own anecdote about Rove.
I had a brief talk with my mother last night. She told me she was going to vote for Bush mainly because she […]

Dick Howard’s NYTIMES commentary on Cornell West’s most recent book is descriptive and critical. The general impression is that, while West may have identified the problems as being how our post-9-11 insecurities have been manipulated and Market Fundamentalism left inadequately unchallenged, his solution consists of much wishful thinking. In other words, West does […]

Mark Shields provides a nice readable list of what doesn’t matter and what does matter for the outcomes of elections.
The factors he says matter are debates, events(often outside of the candidates control), and turn-out. I think key to turnout will be the Republican’s attempts to frame the election as about values, or […]

AP News has just recently come out with good news for Bush.
I don’t see why Kerry’s use of Dean-like slogans is a flip-flop. We can learn from experience and experience has shown that we really did mess up with going into Iraq on our own the way we did.
As a […]

according to Josh Marshall is the clear and coherent question that ought to be posed to all USAmericans to make them reflect on the BushAdministration. And so I’ll pose the same question to everyone that visits my blog and ask that they do the same to others as these are the sorts of discussions […]

James Fallows thinks so, based on his analysis and comparison of how Bush spoke during his debate with Ann Richards prior to displacing her as gov’r of Texas. The article is lengthy but it has a lot of interesting stuff on the art of making political speeches or debates. An art that Bush […]

I’m thankful again for knightopia for pointing to an excellent blog entry condensation of a conversation of top political wonks discussing the election.
Steve points to Joe Trippi as predicting that there will be a third party in the US in 2008. Sounds likes he thinks it will be one drawing upon the […]

Over at my parent blog knightopia, my friend Steve points out the decisive move by Colin Powell to label the ongoing conflicts in Sudan as a genocide.
This is a serious development. One that will stretch our troop employment even further.
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I feel like renting and watching “The 25th Hour” to commemorate […]