Re: Jeremiad or jihad?

[Mark Graber]

Sandy is right.  I write too fast.  But the general point stands.  Jeremiahs and calls for jihads should be rationed, and Scalia is overdrawn.   MAG >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/27/03 02:23PM >>> Mark Graber writes:  Scalia's seem a call for a jeremiad.  Once a term perhaps.  But not two a week. Scalia's opinion IS a "jeremiad," a sermon about the decline (and potentially baleful future) awaiting the community that has strayed from its foundations (usually divine, given that the classic jeremiads were delivered by such as Cotton Mather).  So does Mark actually mean to use the word "jihad"?  This would, after all, be appropriate for those who believe they are involved in a kulturkampf. sandy