MSNBC's seething hate for much of the country came through, yet again, on Tuesday night as Democratic operative James Carville appeared to slime the “stupid,” “staggering humanity of conservative evangelicals.” Spitting venom, he described the “problem” Republicans have with “low quality” voters.
Perhaps no government policy anywhere in the world affected more people in a more intimate and brutal way than China’s one-child policy. In the West, there’s a tendency to approve of it as a necessary if overzealous effort to curb China’s population growth and overcome poverty. In fact, it was unnecessary and has led to a rapid aging of China’s population that may undermine
S. M. Hutchens
In an earlier contribution to Mortal Remains titled, Alas, Average at Best (July/August 2020), I had occasion to note, in a story documenting the impending liberal/conservative division of the United Methodist Church on homosexuality, some journalist s observation that the liberal faction was the brighter one, conservatives invariably being less educated, accomplished, and culturally sophisticated. The implication, I wrote,
is that those in the churches who oppose what used to be universally acknowledged in them as sexual sin are, on the whole, inferior human beings by the most meaningful indices of personal worth they are, as Michael Weisskopf alleged in his infamous 1993