Two from TAP

Proving that the Bush administration has created some strange political bedfellows, the January issue of the liberal American Prospect, which I picked up this weekend, features an article on the war on terror by libertarian Ivan Eland, as well as an article in praise of William Jennings Bryan, the anti-Darwinist scorned by H.L. Mencken and portrayed as a fundamentalist boob in Inherit the Wind.

The real Bryan, of course, was much more interesting – a prairie populist who almost became president and a pacifist who resigned from Woodrow Wilson’s cabinet to protest the U.S.’s imminent entry into World War I. The author suggests that attending to Bryan could provide inspiration for how progressive politics and Christian orthodoxy can coexist.