My column today in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Bruce Ledewitz: How the Democratic party must change to win in 2028 Special to the Post-Gazette Nov 18, 2024 5:30 AM No, Donald Trump is not a political genius; we are not all MAGA; Kamala Harris is not a vapid...
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Mr. President: Pardon Donald Trump
This was my Monday column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Bruce Ledewitz: Mr. President: Pardon Donald TrumpSpecial to the Post-GazetteNov 11, 20245:30 AM In the interest of national unity and to protect the rule of law, President Joe Biden should take a magnanimous...
Whoever Wins Must Face the National Debt
Bruce Ledewitz: History's most fiscally irresponsible presidential election Bruce Ledewitz Special to the Post-Gazette Nov 4, 2024 5:30 AM I don’t know who will win the presidential election, but I know who will lose — anyone who relies on the full faith and...
THE UNIVERSE IS ON OUR SIDE
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…