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One of the most contentious aspects of this weekend's House health care debate was whether federally subsidized insurance plans should be allowed to offer abortion services. An 11th-hour deal to secure passage of the bill handed a victory to ...
From ALAN WOLFE, WILLIAM GALSTON,
The New Republic,
10 Nov 2009
Alan Wolfe is a TNR contributing editor and director of the Boisi Center for Religion and American Public Life at Boston College.
Just before the House of Representatives voted on the Stupak Amendment, designed to stop any public funding of insurance ...
There are those who come up with an innovative idea, develop the skills necessary to realize it, and use every bit of their creative capacity to make it succeed. Then there are those who believe that human beings have no power to change the world but ...
From ALAN WOLFE,
Slate,
26 Oct 2009
Alan Wolfe is a TNR contributing editor and professor of political science at Boston College.
One reason to lament the passing of Irving Kristol is that we will never know what this acerbic and witty critic of the New Left’s most romantic and ...
In this 1962 photo, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, center, poses with U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, left, and President John F. Kennedy at the White House.
Aug. 27, 2009 | Teddy Kennedy's death marks the end of the Kennedy era in American politics. ...
From ALAN WOLFE,
Salon,
26 Aug 2009
WE ALL NOW KNOW that Teddy Kennedy died yesterday. It remains to be seen whether liberalism died with him.
Many will claim that the passing of the one inevitably means the demise of the other. Kennedy was the last living embodiment in American politics ...
From ALAN WOLFE,
Boston Globe,
26 Aug 2009
William I. Robinson teaches sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Describing himself as a "scholar-activist" on his website, Robinson deals with recent economic trends such as globalization. He does so in a manner reminiscent of the ...
On a recent trip to the Twin Cities to give a lecture, I was invited to write something by the editors of Contexts, a snappy journal associated with the American Sociological Association designed to bring sociological knowledge to the informed reading ...
As devastating as they were, the 20th century's two world wars were only global. What if the next war we fight—indeed what if the war we are currently fighting—is cosmic? "A cosmic war," Reza Aslan writes, "is like a ritual drama in which participants ...
From ALAN WOLFE,
Slate,
13 Apr 2009
The world "liberal" first used in its modern political sense in 1812, when Spaniards wrote a new constitution liberating themselves from monarchical rule. As it happens, the word "socialism" originated in roughly the same period; it came into existence ...
