Interesting Points commentary section this weekend, full of intriguing "points" of view. My personal faves are the Katz and Fulwood pieces for their sheer originality.... Hope you enjoy all or some of the following: Robert D. Kaplan on what it takes to earn the highest award the U.S. military can bestow -- and why the public fails to appreciate its worth. Rod Dreher about Episcopal priest Chloe Breyer memoir, in which she wrote about her befuddlement that prisoners she was ministering to responded more to the stern teachings of Islam than her squishy version of Christianity. Breyer, like so many liberals, didn't understand that the poor and the working class need a strict code of personal and social morality more than the well-off do, precisely because the consequences for failure are so much harsher for them. Conservatives get this. But what conservatives don't get, and liberals do, is the extent to which economic conditions help or hinder the development of a healthy moral atmosphere. In their important new book "Grand New Party," young conservatives Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam show how the Republican Party, whose cultural beliefs generally resonate with working-class views, has dropped the ball on relating to working-class economic insecurity. For all their advantages this election year, the Democrats are still in thrall to cultural elitists. If the GOP can get right on pro-family economic policies, it can hold off the Democr ...
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