Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers!: Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American PoliticsNYU Press, 2005 - Всего страниц: 228 The level of vitriol in American politics has been rising with no end in sight. Terms like “evildoer,” “war on terror,” and “axis of evil” have become commonplace in our discussion of international politics. What ever happened to civil debate? Where has all this moralizing come from? And what harm has this new level of attack caused to democracy in America? |
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... president, Rev. Joseph M. McShane, SJ, academic vice president, John Hollwitz, and my own Dean, Rev. Robert R. Grimes, SJ, for the support they have given me, enabling me to take my computer and views to other parts of the world, and ...
... President: Why do Americans either adore Bush or loathe him—and what does it mean for 2004?” By September 2004, the meaning was clear. The thousandth U.S. soldier had died in Iraq and peace was not on the horizon. Fears of an imminent ...
... President Clinton's character and impeachment. Some right-wing media, for example, suggested that Clinton had engineered the murder of presidential counsel Vincent Foster.2 George Will, a respected columnist and commentator on ABC TV ...
... President George H. W. Bush called Saddam Hussein “another Hitler” in 1990, his point was to paint him as “evil” in order to strengthen the president's political hand in using military force against the Iraqi dictator. Recalling the ...
... President Bush's articulation of an “axis of evil” is one example, but the history of threat and warfare is replete with others. Recall, for example, Ayatollah Khomeini's characterization back in 1979 of America as “the Great Satan ...
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Americas Moral Paradox | 44 |
4 The Deep Divide and the Most Vulnerable | 64 |
Part II
Demonization and Wars Seeking the Enemy | 85 |
6 Terror Evil and the New Cold War | 102 |
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Terror Wars and Culture Wars | 129 |
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Preserve the Environment Become an Environmental Sport | 149 |
Conclusion | 164 |
Notes | 199 |
Index | 221 |
About the Authors | 228 |
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