Griffith's conflict here is between good and evil, categories in which characters of both races reside.
In politics, good and evil, categories of the natural world and therefore obsolete remnants of the past, lose all absolute meaning; the sole method of politics is quantifiable success.
This is political journalism in its deepest sense (and it is why the Joseph Rowntree foundation, which works with the marginalised and the dispossessed, is such an appropriate sponsor of the "Exposing Britain's Social Evils" category).
Sanders supports many of the things I do, more than any other candidate in the history of my ability to vote, and didn't really fall into my "lesser of two evils" category.
And now — well, now we're seeing Sony's entry into the big-sensor/no-mirror semi-EVIL camera category.
When we move beyond talk of good and evil, when the categories virtue and vice are transcended, we are left with the thin gruel of values talk.
It would be much easier if the world were neatly divided into imperial states and helpless, subject peoples (or, for that matter, into forces of freedom and axes of evil), but the categories have a way of getting tangled up -- in the Balkans, in Asia and certainly in the Middle East -- something that Mr. Chomsky, for all his intelligence and discipline, does not always grasp.
Many will opportunistically place him in a category of evil money-lovers alongside such men as Bernie Madoff, Ivan Boesky or Robert Maxwell.
While some of the previously hidden military errors in Iraq or Afghanistan may fit this category, what evil or illegality is the flood of American diplomatic cables revealing?
