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My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In the movie “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” Colonel Nicholson, played by Alec Guinness, leads captured British POWs in building a splendid bridge for the Japanese. His intentions are to create order and meaning that...
My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Bruce Ledewitz Special to the Post-Gazette Apr 7, 2025 4:30 AM My friends and family members are frantic that Donald Trump will destroy the Constitution. I don’t blame them. Trump is acting like a king who can do whatever...
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...
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…
