Body Politic
Spy Agency to the Rescue
If the NSA snoops on everyone, and no one knows enough to complain, does it still make a stink?
Citizen Keynes
To modern eyes, economics may seem sociopathically amoral, if not deeply immoral. That’s an unfortunate, though forgivable, association. A pernicious glorification of wealth has attached itself to the discipline, crowding out its deeper moral ideas.
My Old Kentucky Home
How a party irrationally committed to the sabotage of a secret, socialist scheme to make Americans live longer could possibly seem unworthy of respect befuddles Rep. Stutzman. Better that the government remain closed and the Treasury careen towards default while Speaker Boehner figures out what goody bag he can scrape up to appease the Tea Party.
The Moral Crusaders
Granted, some insanities are worse than others. Casual conspiracy theorists are a tolerable mainstay of nearly every Thanksgiving dinner after all. It’s less amusing when loony Uncle Bobby is elected to Congress (Louie Gohmert, I’m looking at you).
