Hadley Arkes on "Kmiec Agonistes"

Hadley Arkes scratches his head about Douglas Kmiec's support of Barack Obama, and makes many excellent points along the way. Kmiec, it should be remembered, once had a sterling pro-life reputation.

I'm not going to pull an excerpt out from the text because I think the whole article deserves to be read.

(And by the bye, can someone answer me why an astute list of contributors couldn't come up with anything more inventive than "The Catholic Thing" for their title? It isn't even strictly accurate... Okay, I've done.)