At the end of short post on Barack Obama's famous "That is above my pay grade" line at Saddleback, Scott Klusendorf has this absolutely fabulous commentary:
"That's what's wrong with liberalism. While it pretends not to preach, it quietly decides who lives and dies."
Brief, pungent, memorable, profound, incisive, pregnant - now that is great writing!
Read his post here: http://lti-blog.blogspot.com/2009/01/is-hope-enough-sk.html
(HT - Francis Beckwith at "What's Wrong With the World")
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Speaking of liberalism & ethical issues...
If you didn't see it, last night TVO - The Agenda had a Episode called "The Debate: Politics in the Classroom | The role of professors: transmitters of knowledge or drivers of social change?" The debate was between Stanley Fish, Clifford Orwin (my U of T prof :) and a number of others. I didn't watch the whole thing carefully, but it seemed like Fish was pulling the liberalism trick - insisting that profs have to be 'neutral' which in itself isn't a neutral position... (as he himself admitted in the article we read for C&C). That's just the whole "pretending not to preach" thing. ..whereas some of the other panelists were pointing out the need to sometimes take a visible stand on issues of ethics and truth.
If you're interested, you can listen to the podcast here:
http://www.tvo.org/cfmx/tvoorg/theagenda/index.cfm?page_id=7&bpn=779423&ts=2009-01-29%2020:00:35.0
Btw, a friend of mine is looking for useful readings on Theocons- basically how and why religiously-motivated issues have become so politically central in the US particularly. If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear them.
Hope you're doing well~
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