Brooks: Is it Safe? (”Security Leads to Freedom”)

Friday, March 30th, 2007 Posted in Authoritarianism, Brooks, Essays, Right Wing | No Comments »

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG5Qk-jB0D4] There are legitimate conservative arguments to be made, but David Brooks' latest column does not make them. In fact, the basic point of the column is that if Republicans need to jettison every value they've ever stood for in order to ...

Christ 2.0 (A Parable of Innocence)

Friday, March 23rd, 2007 Posted in Religion, Right Wing | 2 Comments »

The death penalty and Iraq have proven that it is not killing per se that vexes right-wing fundamentalist Christians. Rather, they make a fetish of helplessness and innocence: the thought of unadulterated fetuses sucked unceremoniously back into the void is ...