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Eugene McCarraher | George Weigel | Mary Jo Bane

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 o (...)


 

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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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George Weigel is senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C.

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Mary Jo Bane is the Thornton Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy and Management at the Harvard Kennedy School, where she has been on the faculty since 1981. From 1993 to 1996 she was assistant secretary for children and families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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