In search of "the common good"

Who said that "democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and of moral purpose"? Why, it was that nominal Episcopalian FDR, as Lew Daly points out in his Boston Review essay on religion, politics and the concept of the common good.

Posted by Jim Naughton on July 7, 2007 7:49 AM | |
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