It is one of the great canards of American politics that leftists have gotten tarred as “utopian” dreamers. In conservatives’ hands, progressives and liberals alike are cowards who cannot make their own way in life and thus look to government to protect them from tragedy. These latter are weak-kneed social dependents who believe that conflict … Continue reading
(Here’s the original post that started it all.) David Sessions responds to my response: That last line there was basically the crux of my essay; in fact, I was not at all saying leftist hope (or belief) and Christian hope have the same content. My goal was to describe a condition of sitting on the … Continue reading
David Sessions has posted a searching essay on the difficulty of sustaining conviction in Zucotti Park: But there is still that frustrating way that radical hope can turn into religious hope and back again, like they were caught together in a Möbius strip. Terry Eagleton describes both Marxism and Christianity as resting on the demented … Continue reading
David Sessions over at Patrol Magazine does a really nice job working through a left-wing blogosphere flareup prompted by Freddie DeBoer, then concludes: While I recognize the hallowed place labor holds in the left-wing imagination and the extraordinary gains it won for American workers, I have, as Avent argues about younger writers, often seen it … Continue reading
