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...interest you, you also need the Bible to make sense of the ideas and rhetoric that have helped drive U.S. history. "The shining city on the hill"? That's Puritan leader John Winthrop quoting Matthew to describe his settlement's convenantal standing with God. In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln noted sadly that both sides in the Civil War "read the same Bible" to bolster their opposing claims. When Martin Luther King Jr. talked of "Justice rolling down like waters" in his "I Have a Dream" speech, he was consciously enlisting the Old Testament prophet Amos, who first spoke...
...wrong, this shouldn't stop schools from making some effort to teach the Bible. The study doesn't have to be mandatory. In a national school system overscheduled with basic skills, other topics such as history and literature deserve core status more than Scripture--provided that these classes address it themselves, where appropriate. But if an elective is offered, it should be twinned mandatorily with a world religions course, even if that would mean just a semester of each. Within that period students could be expected to read and discuss Genesis, the Gospel of Matthew, a few Moses...
Judt added that the book will likely include more “technical detail and primary sourcing” and “address the formal criticisms made of the article, some genuine, many in bad faith...
...delightful—something a baby might gurgle, I thought, before recognizing the language as Arabic. Did the muffin walk? Eat? Cry? Such intrigue, such absurdity. Since then, I’ve received up to five texts a day from Ali. I know his email server, but not his address. I cannot respond. I don’t know why the texts arrive mostly in English and not Arabic. Until recently, he did not appear on Google or other search engines. I have no idea who he’s trying to reach. But we’ve been playing...
...Giuliani is strangely low key. He hasn't yet outlined a campaign speech. He tends to meander from one talking point to the next, in a way that certainly isn't formal but isn't quite conversational either. Even these talking points seem improvised. I recently heard him address a big meeting of conservatives in Washington at which he chose to emphasize free-market competition to improve public schools. But when I asked him three days later to list his campaign priorities, education didn't make his top five...