Isaac G. Inkeles
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Some Concluding Thoughts
The lesson I derive from all this is to be cautious and humble. I often find things to be a lot more complex and subtle after I have thought them over for some time than I do after examining them one or even several times.
Loving the West
If I fail to struggle with the West’s complicated legacy, and fail to embrace the undeniable offerings it has because of that, I am the one who loses out.
God and Man at Harvard
I wish that we expected their arguments to be as logically rigorous (and modest) and historically informed as we expect the arguments of religious apologists to be.
'What’s Love Got To Do With It?'
It is plain wrong to assume that whenever people oppose gay marriage they are bigots, just as it is plain wrong to assume that whenever people support gay marriage they are not true conservatives.
Guns to God
Just because Christians constitute a global plurality, and a majority in America, does not mean that violence against them or indifference to their suffering is without consequence.
Weddings, Weed, and Washington
If one is going to criticize Kim Davis primarily on the grounds that she undermined the rule of law—like White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest did—one also needs to criticize Obama’s unilateral decisions to revise immigration policy, the federal government’s tolerance of heterodox state marijuana laws, and a host of other actions.
Judgment and Friendship
When someone judges me in good faith, he does so because he believes that I am making a mistake: the judgment is meant to both inform me of my error, and offer a correction.