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Whoever Wins Must Face the National Debt

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...

Campaign Finance Reform Worth Having

Campaign Finance Reform Worth Having

We can end the real problem of independent spending by eliminating contribution limits. My column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Bruce Ledewitz: How to stop campaign spending from corrupting elections Special to the Post-Gazette Oct 28, 2024 5:30 AM What problem is...

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…

 

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