Carl Schmitt argued that without a friend-enemy distinction there was no 'political'. Increasingly that division is rotating around the distinction between reason and irrationalism. Reason is often construed as a political outlet for liberalism. (more)
Michael Gerson has an article in the WaPo which argues that atheists are unable to explain how someone is moral without their being some theistic intervention in the natural world; acknowledged by the individual or not. Gerson discredits Kantian morality and Bentham's utilitarianism in coming to the conclusion that without understanding that the moral qualities of "love, harmony and sympathy" flow through God as creator then morality becomes a cruel joke of nature and is deprived of goodness or moral quality. (more)
Reason asks three questions of numerous commentators and punditry in
Iraq Progress Report - Advocates for liberty weigh in after three years
. Since reason didn't ask me, I thought I would answer anyway from an Australian context.
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Two medical disorders that owe their existence to political advocacy:
Crack babies
(via
Reason
and
Slate
), and
Alzheimers
.
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