even as Obama’s RCP average job approval rating gets up near 50%, 1. The economic fundamentals are still pretty bad. Median income is still down. The unemployment rate is both high and stagnant. This is the raw material for a campaign message. What Romney needs . . . . Continue Reading »
There’s probably a bit of wishful thinking in John Dickerson’s The Coming War Within the Republican Party , arguing that a lot of major conservative voices are already assuming Romney will lose the election, as shown by their jumping in to be the first ones to explain why and . . . . Continue Reading »
Eboo Patel argues that colleges and universities should begin paying attention to religious diversity. I want to agree with him, but the fine print makes it almost impossible. What if campuses took religious diversity as seriously as they took race? What if recruiting a religiously diverse . . . . Continue Reading »
blogs: A new Bureau of Justice Statistics Report by Erica Smith and Jessica Truman shows a significant decline in the Prevalence Of Violent Crime Among Households With Children, 1993-2010. The study is based on the large-scale annual National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) and it . . . . Continue Reading »
1. There’s now almost no chance that the Republicans will take the SENATE now. Despite the large number of seats that are clearly vulnerable from 2006, it looks like the election will be a wash now. 2. The experts who are analyzing the House races are now talking small Democratic gains and . . . . Continue Reading »
in Foreign Policy: If the age of men has ended, nobody told Asia. True, across the continent women are obtaining degrees at higher rates — in some cases outpacing men — and bucking traditional gender roles. Yet the past few decades have brought significant setbacks as well as . . . . Continue Reading »
Leroy Huizenga on the “Gospel of Jesus’ Wife” : “Oh no,” I thought, “here we go again.” News of a long lost textual fragment which many will think could undermine traditional Christian faith is breaking, the latest in a long line of interesting discoveries . . . . Continue Reading »
The Pew Forum’s annual report on religious freedom is out, and for the first time in its four-year history, it reports a rising tide of religious restrictions in the United States. This increase has moved the U.S., again for the first time, from Pew’s “low” to . . . . Continue Reading »
Recently I was rereading Rawls on the notion of public reason. This idea is dear to Rawls, because it’s part of his larger vision of participatory democracy. We need to be “in on” the reasons behind public policies, because that’s necessary in order for us to be able to . . . . Continue Reading »
Former government employee Sarah Chayes makes the case that speech—like the notorious “Innocence” video—that might likely incite a violent and deadly response could well stand outside our First Amendment guarantees. The point here is not to excuse the terrible acts . . . . Continue Reading »
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