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...abolitionist John Rankin was that recognizable type, a scalding Old Testament moralist dropped into 19th century America, a place that was already a boiling pot. He was also a Presbyterian preacher, but not the type to turn the other cheek. In 1841, after a pro-slavery raiding party attempted to burn his house, he put forward a summation of his principles: "It is as much a duty to shoot the midnight assassin in his attacks as it is to pray...
...presidential award next spring. Meanwhile, a group of more than 400 doctors collaborated on an abstinence CD-ROM, Prescriptions for Parents: A Physicians' Guide to Adolescence and Sex, released last month by the National Physicians Center for Family Resources. "Parents and children want medical facts, not a one-sided moralist approach," says Dianna Lightfoot, the center's president...
...most vivid, idealistic, stubborn and thorny characters ever to appear in American culture. He was a battler, a moralist, an unstoppable advocate for the artists he loved, a connoisseur of the erotic and one of the greatest photographers who ever tripped a shutter. Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was the first American art dealer young modernism had. But to call him a dealer does him no justice. His influence was huge, and entirely for the good. Yet where was the great exhibition that traced his life's work? The one that showed in detail how "his" artists related...
...couples on dates with other people to compare notes, and somehow the watchdog groups that jumped on "Temptation" haven't seen fit to launch a crusade against that show. The fact is, "controversies" over shows like "Temptation Island" are simply cynical exercises in mutual masturbation through the media. The moralist groups get a soapbox; Fox gets days of free advertising for a show that would otherwise have been lucky to beat out "Blind Date...
...Everything, the various candidates relentlessly insist, is to be done in the name of "our young people" and "our children." And these days, post-Columbine and Eminem, the popular culture seems to have become the principle "enemy-of-the-children," with everyone from Lynne Cheney to our would-be moralist-in-chief, Connecticut Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, inveighing against the filth and obscenity peddled to America under the cloak of "free speech" and "artistic expression." This rhetoric, self-serving though it may be, is at least a sign that America still possesses the capacity for outrage. And outrage...