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The Reagan Era Begins: Democracy Ends

from Special Correspondent T.S. deHaviland

The recent passing of Ronald Reagan has American conservatives gushing over the “greatness” of the 40th president’s legacy and his goodness as a man.

I won’t smear the dead by critiquing the latter, but the former is another matter. Reagan’s tenure in the White House turned me into a liberal—and the [...]

Scrap from an Old Notebook

My students, some of them anyway, must see sin as a big green monster whose talons and speed knock them windless into the dirt.

This would be much the same way I saw him as a child.

But it soon grew on me that sin was actually a look over a ridge, beyond which is [...]