The farmer Joel Salatin speaks at Georgetown - coincidentally during "Sex Positive Week." He should have been scheduled for those events too, since he has something in general to teach about not using the world's creatures as mere objects for our use.
The American economy has been marked by a tremendous concentration of private power over the past 50 years. The only question is not whether this should be reversed, but how it should be done.
What we need today is not a generation that is “spiritual, not religious.” I would argue that what is needed is the studied capacity to be “religious, not spiritual."
Is there a place for friendship in politics? According to ancient theory - one that continued well into modern times - not only should friendship be a main aim of politics, but without that aim, a distinctly modern form of tyranny is the likely result.
Could the very thing that makes our lives so easy also be that which makes it so much harder, particularly in encouraging our separation into our private retreats?
Even as he denounces the conservative justices for activism and for creating "legislation" from the bench, as well as the general conservative movement for a "double standard without apology" . . . he fails to note the double-standard that he (and others on the Left) are employing in their demands for judicial modesty.
