The eminent scholar Robert Bellah writes about the election of Obama and what it says about him and our country over at The Immanent Frame, the smartest religion blog in the sphere.
Moneyquote: “If you look at Obama’s specific policy concerns you will find the common good at the core of almost all of them. Universal health care is an obvious example. And why, except for our culture of radical individualism, don’t we already have it as every advanced society in the world has it? Because in normal times common good arguments do not carry the day in America.”
