Charles N.W. Keckler

Charles N.W. Keckler is a former deputy assistant secretary for policy in the Department of Health and Human Services. He current teaches at Pennsylvania State University's Dickinson School of Law and formerly taught at George Mason University School of Law.

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Democrats: The Party of Palliation

By Charles N.W. Keckler

A month before the presidential election, we know it will be close, and it will be a choice -- no mere referendum on the executive management skills of the current president. The electorate is choosing the balance between public and private sectors, between more and less government. But it is also choosing between the different ends to which government is directed, the different visions about what government is for, and in particular, the relationship politics has with suffering and sacrifice.