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My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Bruce Ledewitz: Republicans, get rid of the filibuster but force Trump to act legally Special to the Post-Gazette Mar 24, 2025 4:00 AM We have just witnessed the absurd spectacle of Democrats in the U.S. Senate...
My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Bruce Ledewitz: A Democratic people’s platform that could defeat Donald Trump Special to the Post-Gazette Mar 10, 2025 4:30 AM The Democratic Party — my party — must be the most inept political organization in history....
My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Bruce Ledewitz: The Supreme Court will step up and Trump will back down Special to the Post-Gazette Feb 24, 2025 5:30 AM Since his inauguration, Donald Trump has been acting like a king in ways that either violate the...
In The Universe Is On Our Side, Bruce Ledewitz argues that there has been a breakdown in American public life that no election can fix – Americans struggle to even converse about politics and the usual explanations for our condition have failed to make things better.
Ledewitz posits that America is living with the consequences of the Death of God, which Friedrich Nietzsche presumed would be momentous and irreversible.
For a long time, God acted as the story of the meaning of our lives. America’s future requires that we begin a new story by each of us asking a question posed by theologian Bernard Lonergan: Is the universe on our side? When we commit to live honestly and fully by our answer to that question, even if our immediate answer is no, America can begin to heal. Beyond this, pondering the question of the universe will allow us to see that there is more to the universe than blind forces and dead matter…
