Why should being pro-environment preclude being pro-life? Why can’t Republicans worry about economic inequality, and Democrats consider devolving more power to localities and states? Does opposing the Iraq war mean that you have to endorse an anything-goes approach to bioethics? Does supporting free trade require supporting the death penalty?
These questions, and many others like them, are the kind that a healthy political system would allow voters and politicians to explore.
But for now, at least, you’re more likely to find them being raised in Benedict XVI’s Vatican than in Barack Obama’s Washington.
Friday, July 17, 2009
New Politics
Ross Douthat sees in Pope Benedict's latest encyclical on social justice and global economics a political vision which transcends Left and Right. It inspires him to long for greater freedom to form and follow convictions:
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