Father Anderton's voice can be arresting even when he's describing heartburn ("I felt an empty, dyspeptic scorch as I drove to the school, like a rising argument at the centre of my chest"), and our growing intimacy with his inner voice describes its own arc of seduction and betrayal.
Indeed, after a decade of stocks treading water, the equities-always-rise argument has been battered, particularly for retiring baby boomers.
"We are like a species out of control". As population rises, this argument runs, consumption will increase and place an impossible strain on natural resources, from water supplies and agricultural land to fish in the ocean, as well as giving rise to runaway climate change as we burn ever more fossil fuels.
AMERICA'S loud debate about offshoring has its echo in Britain, and the volume of argument rose this week on the publication of two reports.
But even if the euro is born on time, it will still give rise to arguments, not least because France still seems to have different views from Germany about the political governance of the new currency.
They all give rise to arguments and policies that reinforce the new classical version of state nationalism.
When he cast off his cautious, lawyerly mode of argument, Lincoln rose to grand rhetorical heights, delineating an argument about democracy that, Mr. Guelzo contends, carries to the present day.
Now, as the last residents move out of the high-rises, Americans need to remember that Cabrini was home to many decent people whose voices never rose above the arguments about their neighborhood".
When in December Mr Ito called for a radical cut in the GPIF's bond portfolio from 55% down to 35%, yields on JGBs temporarily rose.The basic arguments for overhauling the fund are persuasive.
With new urgency, a chorus of voices making closing arguments rose over Memorial Day weekend on social media, on television and, notably, in private meetings and letters with the president urging him to stay or leave the accord.
