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Eugene McCarraher June 23, 2004 - 3:44am

Mary Jo Bane

I would like to vote, this year or sometime, for a ticket and a party that is pro-life, pro-family, and pro-poor.

It’s not clear to me why this formulation (which I was introduced to by the Reverend Eugene Rivers and political scientist John DiIulio) seems so odd to so many people. For me it follows from a commitment to the essential dignity and equality of every human person. It restates...

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Eugene McCarraher is associate professor of humanities and history at Villanova University. He is completing The Enchantments of Mammon: Corporate Capitalism and the American Moral Imagination.

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