Ethics

Sam Harris on Palin

By Ed Brayton

I generally find Sam Harris more annoying than enlightening, but I think this article about Sarah Palin is mostly on the mark. This is a great line:

Let me confess that I was genuinely unnerved by Sarah Palin's performance at the Republican convention. Given her audience and the needs of the moment, I believe Governor Palin's speech was the most effective political communication I have ever witnessed. Here, finally, was a performer who--being maternal, wounded, righteous and sexy--could stride past the frontal cortex of every American and plant a three-inch heel directly on that limbic circuit that ceaselessly intones "God and country."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 24, 2008 (boomark / email).