Here is The Good Doctor (TGD) in a bellicose mood, that is to say, in his guise as a Neo-Conservative Political Theologian, discoursing on the nature of evil. The title of his essay is ‘Evil does not die of natural causes’, and inherent in this rhetorical frame is the idea of himself as authority, indeed lawgiver and judge of the many others who likewise conceive of themselves as lawgivers, as judges of others, in a political/ethical context: his competitors in the business of opinion mongering. How can we know who is right? Faith? Hyperbole can sometimes clarify. TGD argues that the proper response to 9/11 was the great cleansing balm of war and its suspension of a now useless constitutionalism: the exception, in the parlance of Carl Schmitt. Is the execution of Osama bin Laden a vindication of the War on Terror and the whole sale breaking with our laws that it brought with it? Not to speak of a creeping institutional corruption. These questions in the mind of TGD have answered themselves. But, not to fear TGD’s mood devolves from warrior to petulant child, in his concluding paragraph: he has had his say and catharsis has saved his readers from more self-indulgent, indignant political posturing. Although TGD adds a piquant note as he, in passing, mentions the Laws of History and Nature.
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