Sublime

Eight years after the publication of In the Shadow of Just Wars,6 it examines the precept that the political exploitation of aid is not a misuse of its vocation, but its principal condition of existence.

profit and money making to excess and self-indulgence.

opening fire in a synagogue outside San Diego, killing a sixty-year-old congregant

Why then are decent people today afraid to call evil by its name? Why do so many insist on finding moral equivalence? And why do so many people describe the worst of evils—the deliberate targeting of children—with positive-sounding terms like “freedom fighting,” while describing reasonable efforts to prevent these Nazi-like evils as Nazism itself?

Money emerges from uncertainty, capital emerges from money, and uncertainty emerges from capital.

His 1989 film, Weapons of the Spirit, is a documentary about Le Chambon; it has become an educational staple that I watched in my high school French class.