Can Biden Prove That Democracy Works?
History is a series of contingencies: some novel, others familiar, but none destined. Biden would do well to probe Roosevelt’s example for guidance.
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History is a series of contingencies: some novel, others familiar, but none destined. Biden would do well to probe Roosevelt’s example for guidance.
The exclusion of certain countries from the U.S. “democracy summit” is not a side issue. It is the very purpose of the summit. And excluded countries have
Twentieth-century American intellectual Reinhold Niebuhr offers a classic critique of American exceptionalism that is as relevant today as it was when he wrote it during the Cold War.
Jealously guarded as the country's most sacred text, the highest law in the land is an artifact of history even as competing forces put demands on it to guide the country into the future.
The Pope of your church in October 2020 wrote these words: “We can no longer think of war as a solution, because its risks will probably always be greater than its supposed benefits. In view of this, it is very difficult nowadays to invoke the rational criteria elaborated in earlier centuries to speak of the possibility of a ‘just war’. Never again war!” 242 At footnote 242, Pope Francis wrote: “Saint Augustine, who forged a concept of ‘just war’ that we no longer uphold in our own day, also said that ‘it is a higher glory still to stay war itself with a word, than to slay me...