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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 [...]
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 [...]
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 Terror”, 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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