Appropriations process. And, you know, its a, its a convenient and attractive, sometimes overly seductive tool in the president s Foreign Policy arsenal. From the shadows, a look at the cia, tonight at 10 eastern and sunday at 9 on after words, part of booktv this weekend on cspan2. And online at booktvs book club, comment on last months in depth guest, bonnie morris. Read a womans history for beginners and join the conversation. Go to booktv. Org and click on book club to enter the chat room. Cspan Gertrude Himmelfarb, author of the demoralization of society, deep in your book you suggest that the bicycle had more to do with liberating women in the victorian age, or some age, than the feminist movement. Is that true . Guest i think that is true. I think one of the interesting things about feminism, about all ideologies, is how in the end they are less influential than an awful lot of other things that are going on in society at the same time, and so while the feminists are talking abo
In the meticulously researched book, “Politicizing the Bible,” research historians Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker dig deep into the Middle Ages and Renaissance to show that Christendom’s long term apostasy began with the appropriation, deconstruction and paganization of scripture by politically motivated interpreters. Among them were early Popes, Machiavelli, Marsilio of Padua, Henry VIII, Thomas Hobbes, and Descartes and Spinoza, who sought an empire of science.
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Mitchell Cohen is co-editor emeritus of Dissent in New York and professor emeritus of political science at Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York. His books include Zion and State: .