Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.

Biocides, for example, are designed to kill bacteria—it’s not a benign material.

The Fall is where the nation is. The Fall is the locus of America.

Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.