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Sometimes, the truth isn’t good enough. Thus says Batman to Jim Gordon in the concluding scene of Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight.    Americans disagree.  To know anything at all about our public policies and discourse is to know that Americans hold that the truth is never good enough.  Plato long ago referred to “convenient…

At the second presidential debate, Barack Obama claimed that within hours of its occurrence, he referred to the September 11th attack on the American embassy inLibya as an “act of terror.” When Mitt Romney proceeded to challenge the President’s veracity on this score, moderator Candy Crowley insisted that Obama was correct.  This brief exchange is…

The second presidential debate is now history. As was the case in Mitt Romney’s first encounter with President Obama a couple of weeks ago in Denver, the former prevailed. That Obama was feistier than he was in the first debate is undeniable.  However, equally undeniable is that, as far as his electoral prospects are concerned,…

During the Vice Presidential debate, Joe Biden and Paul Ryan—both Roman Catholics—were asked about their respective views on abortion.  Biden’s answer is one that we have come to expect from Catholic Democrats.  Personally, he said, he shares his Church’s perennial position against abortion.  However, this is a belief that he refuses to “impose” upon others.…
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