An Unpolitical Plea for Political Sanity
"Of course we will have fascism in America, but we will call it democracy.”—a prophecy attributed to Louisiana governor Huey Long by literary scholar Harold Bloom “If a brother or sister is naked and destitute of daily food, and one of you says to them, ‘depart in peace, be warmed and filled,’ but you do not give them the things which are needed for the body, what does it profit?”—St. James the Just, bishop of Jerusalem, brother of Jesus called the Christ (James 2.15-16) “But whoever has this world’s goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him? My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue [only], but in deed and in truth.”—St. John the Theologian, I John 3.17-18 “I am a Christian, and indeed a Roman Catholic…”—John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, in a letter Not long ago, I had an epiphany, l...