Tag: politics
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Robert B. Talisse on “Civility”
Robert B. Talisse notes “civility” is subject to partisan perception
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Education and Partisanship
reading an article by Eric Levitz on “educational polarization” and its impact on US partisan politics
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To Die For
thoughts on study that finds evidence for a link between political party affiliation and excess death post COVID-19
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Cruelty as Policy
thoughts on reading an article on the history of the child separation policy at the US southern border
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Perspective
the abortion debate presumes that pregnancy itself contributes nothing essential to the creation of a rights-bearing person
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Continuity, or Denial?
Is “what happens at church” on most Sunday mornings more about “continuity” or more about “denial” of what’s going on outside of church?
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Modern Day Prophecy
Pew Research Center has published their detailed report Beyond Red and Blue: The Political Typology. The way I read it, it’s discouraging. It’s not obvious to me that the people this survey is about – us, that is – have the tools we need and the skills we need to do the things we would…
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Hospitality and Hostility and Wondering About That
Most of us – people, I’m thinking, human beings – are not good at welcoming and condemning at the same time. That sounds obvious, but it was a hard sentence to come up with. Most of us – people, I’m thinking, human beings – don’t think of ourselves as “condemning.” We more often think of…
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Cue the Spooky Music
[Tucker] Carlson talked up Hungary’s anti-immigration policies and what he described as the country’s support of families, but in a speech he gave—and later promoted on social media—he also addressed what we might call the politics of aesthetics. He emphasized the need for “order and cleanliness,” which he called “essential to human happiness.” He railed…
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Polity
Yesterday reminded me why I love the Presbyterians. We held our mandatory annual congregational meeting for 2021 yesterday. ASIDE: “Mandatory” says who? The Book of Order, the polity, “the way we do things around here,” the rules. When people talk about “organized religion,” this is exactly what they’re talking about, whether they know it or…
Matters of Interpretation 