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In both cases there is the society in a state of collapse, the government tottering dizzily from crisis to crisis, and the people increasingly gripped by resentment and rage against a West they blame for abandoning, betraying, and exploiting them.
Defending himself against charges of betraying his race, Thomas said, "I refuse to have my ideas assigned to me because I am black."
John Paul II is not afraid--of religion's cultured despisers, of geopoliticians who find his near-pacifism naive, of liberal Catholics who accuse him of betraying the spirit of the Second Vatican Council ("Vatican II"), of feminists who suspect that he sees only two acceptable roles for women--virgin and mother.
Would John feel I was betraying his trust, given his Kennedyesque obsession with privacy?
The massive cover book review praises Justice Antonin Scalia for changing the course of American jurisprudence from "common-law constitutionalism" to "originalism," then blasts him for betraying his own principles: Scalia has abandoned neutrality and now decides cases based on his own political views.