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Tag Archives: Andrew Sullivan
Andrew Sullivan for Lent.
18-Feb-10I meditated on this piece by Sullivan all day yesterday. A friend called it the best thing he’s ever written. I don’t know what to do about it all, but I’ll start with two things: never presuming we are better than any other dictator or government we think we can topple or replace; trying to […]
American Exceptionalism.
15-Feb-10When you hear people say all over the world, “Bin Laden was the first terrorist… Bush was the second terrorist,” this is what they mean. If our elected leaders do not want to abide by the Geneva Convention, they should pull out of it. If they want to torture American citizens they should write new […]
Marriage.
07-Jan-10A curious graphic from Andrew Sullivan, showing the (few) states that allow same-sex marriage, and the (many) states that allow marriage between first cousins. Is there supposed to be an “eww” factor here? What rationale could be used to ban marriage between first cousins if they have the right to marry whomever they please? The […]
The Impossible.
07-Jan-10I don’t know if he said this, but if he did, this might make me like a guy like Rahm Emanuel: According to reports, Emanuel told Dayan the U.S. is sick of the Israelis, who adopt suitable ideas months too late, when they are no longer effective. The U.S. is also sick of the Palestinians […]
Astonishing.
22-Dec-09Again, so good to have Sullivan back. Who writes posts like this? Who has readers like this? Sheer supergay yule pathos.
“Jesus was poor so we could be rich.”
29-Nov-09Andrew Sullivan takes on, in few words, the “Prosperity Gospel” – the Bad News – and gives some real spiritual teaching. It’s staggering really that modern American Christianism supports wealth while Jesus demanded total poverty, fetishizes family while Jesus left his and urged his followers to abandon wives, husbands and children, champions politics while Jesus […]
As you grow older you learn that a key dimension of all religious narrative is that these are stories which you will, by virtue of being human, almost certainly reenact in your own life. Andrew Sullivan, who has been leading one of the most impressively public Christian lives, describes in few and eloquent words his […]
“Redistribution of Privilege”
25-Sep-09A marvellously insightful little post from a reader of Andrew Sullivan’s blog. The reader gives a decent explanation of why the terms “communist” and “socialist” appear to be used to describe people who do not seem in the least like the old Soviets. He describes what is feared as not redistribution of wealth so much […]
Life Without Principle.
09-Sep-10sopping Two pieces, by Andrew Sullivan and Glenn Greenwald, on Obama’s policy of torturing human beings for whatever an American president’s ends may be, without limitation. The national malaise continues – how much sadness I see in people’s lives! even people a decade younger than myself are locked in it – and Obama’s practicality (i.e., lack […]