Wickedness


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On Wickedness (Part V)

But these are all golden dreams. more »

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Wickedness (Last Cri de Coeur Detour—Promise!)

I'm at my favorite place today, the Regenstein Library at the University of Chicago, doing what I like best, wandering the stacks for a research project (I just now got a contact high from the bindery smell). more »

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On Wickedness (Part Four: One Last Vent)

"The world is so much more dangerous and wicked even than it was barely four years ago when we talked, that I marvel and tremble at the rapidity of this deterioration."

—Adlai Stevenson, 1956 more »

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Wickedness (Part Three in a Series)

In an , Richard Land of the Southern Baptist Convention just said his followers would prefer "a third-class fireman over a first-class arsonist."

"Arsonist"—that isn't a racially loaded word at all: more »

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Wickedness (Part Two in a Series)

Just a quick observation about the durability of right-wing wickedness. more »

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On Wickedness (Part One in a Series)

I've started a diary on the subject of conservative turpitude. And liberal depression. And the annoying habit we progressives have of believing that the mere act of debunking conservative lies, "telling the people," and proving the cosmic correctness and justness of our positions, is enough to turn the political tide. It isn't. It doesn't. And that's what makes us depressed.

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