In an unprecedented manner, I have decided to release the editorial for the forthcoming issue of StAR prior to its customary first publication in the journal itself. Having released it for exclusive first publication in Crisis Magazine last Friday, I am delighted to see that it has also been published on the Acton Institute’s website and also on the Catholic Education site linked below. Although my editorials have never been published on the web before and are usually only available to those who subscribe to the print edition of StAR, I thought that the proximity of the forthcoming Presidential election made it prudent to publish it earlier than its scheduled publication in the November/December edition. Since it’s already spreading through cyber-space, we might as well publish it on the Ink Desk also. Here’s the link: http://www.catholiceducation.org/articles/philosophy/ph0115.htm