SOMETHING DANGEROUS IS HAPPENING IN AMERICA.
WE MUST CONFRONT IT.

 
 

Americans are alarmed about the moral condition of their society today. Many in the liberal half of America worry that the political right has been taken over by amoral forces that pretend to be righteous while indulging a lust for power and wealth. Many conservative Americans fear that America's moral integrity is being eroded by an "anything goes" culture that's fostered by contemporary liberalism.

Both these worries are well-founded. Each side of America's political and cultural divide is challenged to overcome its moral blindspot.

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"There are none

so blind as those

who will not see"

Recent Blog Entries:

Deficit Commission Follies: Robert Kuttner on Huffington Post

* A Profound Clue Right Here on NSB

A Deserted Feeling in Working-Class America: Harold Meyerson in the Washington Post

Howard Kurtz and the WashPost's Contempt for its Readers: Glenn Greenwald

Here's a Podcast, I Recommend, of Me on the Radio in Virginia

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Another Good Image of the Bogus Advice Problem: HMS Pinnafore Provides a Different Angle from the Knee-High Man

Appeasing the Bond Gods: Paul Krugman on the Irrationality of the *Austerians*

The Spirituality of Imperfection: Ernest Kurtz and Katherine Ketcham

Right-Wing Climate-Change Denial in Global Perspective: George Monbiot in the Guardian

* The Sacred Space of Lovers: Reflections on *You've Got Mail*

GOP's Far-Right Turn: E.J. Dionne in the Washington Post

Good Riddance to Dr. Laura: Jesse Singal in the New Republic

Some Judges Decry Weak Bank Settlements: Carey Mulligan News Report in New York Times

* The Sacred Space of Lovers: A Note About Same-Sex (as Well as Male-Female) Lovers

The Mosque Hysteria and the Right Wing Propaganda Machine: Frank Rich in the NYTimes

The Absence of a Strong Vision Statement: Michael Kazin on Why Obama is Not Doing Better

* The Sacred Space of Lovers: Participating in the Archetype

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Recent Soap Box Articles:

What America Needs Now: A Prophetic Social Movement that Speaks Moral Truth to Amoral Power

The Concept of Evil:  Why It's Intellectually Valid and Politically and Spiritually Important

A Spiritual Void in Contemporary Liberalism Helped Open the Door to a Spiritual Con Job from the Right.

By Their Fruits—How the Pattern that Rulers Imprint on their Domain Reveals the Spirit that Animates Them

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Book-cubed is a new way to present ideas and information. Its purpose is to reveal—in a way that traditional books cannot—the web of interconnections that characterize a multi-dimensional reality.

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