Bleak America

Bleak America

 What I want to see is not a rush to judgment, but a rush to justice.   Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t understand the protests? What you’re seeing is people pushed to the edge… fifth risk: the risk a society runs when it falls into the habit of responding to...
Here We Go Again

Here We Go Again

 One of the first blogs I wrote concerned a philosophical conundrum that is also a political conundrum: The Trolley Problem and the Winter of our Discontent.  The problem addressed is simple in theory but oh so difficult in practice.  How should we deal with a policy...
Off With Their Heads

Off With Their Heads

UPDATE June 21:  I want to express my full support for the eloquent words of Lila Downs: “Violence provokes more violence. Why provoke with confrontation and repression? If we have the same preoccupations: better education, respect toward students, respect...