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American Exceptionalism And Global Warming (Part 4)
March 25th, 2007(Editors note: Read part one two and three)In the first three parts of this essay, I offered a portrait of American life as viewed from the top, and I suggested that the deeply rooted sense of exceptionalism, found wide spread in our leadership class, in fact, pervades all levels of society. I’ve also argued that [...]
American Exceptionalism And Global Warming (Part 3)
March 4th, 2007(Editors note: Read part one and two and four) I must admit, my friends, that at this point I do not have a handle on a compelling moral argument for what must be done to ameliorate our environment and how to do it justly. I know what I’d like to see done, and I know [...]
American Exceptionalism And Global Warming (Part 2)
February 26th, 2007(Editors note: Read part one three and four) Now, I’ll begin exploring the shape for our curious political life, as outlined in Part 1, by accounts of the run-up to the Iraq war and the behavior of the Democrats during the period 2000 – 2005. Democrats were seemingly, during this time, engaged in self-effacement, echoing [...]
American Exceptionalism And Global Warming (Part 1)
February 18th, 2007(Editors note: Read part two and three and four) Consistency is the bugbear of small minds, and the Bush administration’s policies in many areas, the “War on Terrorâ€, the environment, energy, entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, taxation, deregulation and a host of others are all perfectly consistent and fall within a narrowly [...]
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