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Daily Archives: February 5, 2013
Ambrose’s Nixon: The Education of a Politician 13
In my latest reading of Nixon: The Education of a Politician, Stephen Ambrose talked about Dwight Eisenhower’s wavering over whether or not Richard Nixon would be his Vice-Presidential candidate in 1956. Why was Eisenhower thinking about dropping Nixon? First, there … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
Tagged Dwight Eisenhower, FDR, Frank Nixon, Henry Wallace, Richard Nixon, Stephen Ambrose
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John Courtney Murray and Reflections on Religion in the Public Square
For my write-up today on The Search for God at Harvard, I’ll use as my starting-point something that Ari Goldman says on pages 117-118 about the Catholic thinker John Courtney Murray’s stance on church and state: “On writing on church-state … Continue reading
Posted in Political Philosophy, Politics, Religion
Tagged Ari Goldman, Catholicism, city of god, divine revelation, divorce, John Courtney Murray, John Joseph O'Connor, Politics, social safety net, society, The Search for God at Harvard
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