Yesterday, I blogged about the presidential candidates’ responses to rising gas prices, focusing on how they reveal views of prosperity and the role of community. There was another interesting development in this debate yesterday, which A Siegel described on his blog.  He writes that many environmentalists have until recently viewed Clinton and Obama as having [...]

There has been much discussion of the presidential candidates’ proposals to address rising gas prices. I would like to examine a dimension of this debate that I haven’t yet seen explored: what the candidates’ messages express about their views of prosperity and its sources. The word “prosperity” might seem out of place in [...]