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Theoconservative Joseph Bottum hails Bush’s Inaugural Speech as a Thomist classic. Money quote: President Bush’s opponents should be afraid of this speech because it signals the emergence of a single coherent philosophy within the conservative movement. Natural-law reasoning about the national moral character gradually disappeared from America in the generations after the Founding Fathers, squeezed … Continue reading WE ARE ALL THOMISTS NOW

Not the play. The politics. My favorite email about this non-story about the Bush administration “knowing” that September 11 was possible (based on vague, tragically uncoordinated intelligence about al Qaeda and hijacking that had been around, in some cases, for years) came in the following message in bold capitals: “AN INVESTIGATION INTO INACTION (NOT ASSUMING … Continue reading MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING