Prof. James McCarty featured in BU Today: What would you like to ask the next US President?
The following is an excerpt from BU Today’s article “15 Thought-Provoking Questions for America’s Next President, Posed by BU Community,” featuring Assistant Clinical Professor of Religion and Conflict Transformation James McCarty, published on October 1, 2024. Click here to read the full article.
We asked what question they’d like to see asked of Kamala Harris and Donald Trump
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If you could take 50 percent of the military budget and allot it elsewhere, would you? And, if so, where would that money go?
McCarty: Martin Luther King, Jr., once said that to overcome the triple evils of “racism, extreme materialism, and militarism,” we must have “a revolution of values.” If this values revolution doesn’t come, he said, we will be incapable of charting a path for a peaceful future because “[a] nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
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