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Our Exceptional Racism
Douglas establishes that it isn’t about a singular Florida law that should concern us, but the culture which creates it.
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Speaking is acting
We’ve made a faulty conclusion: that speaking isn’t acting. We couldn’t be more wrong.
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When our need to protect the powerful actually preserves division
We treat our divisions like conundrums: unsolvable and eternal. They’re neither. We just need to take their depth more seriously.
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Seduced by Inequality
It’s important to have empathy, but humanizing the devil doesn’t change his plans.
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Being Racist in America
It’s time we take responsibility for allowing flimsy justifications for racism.
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How our present moment is like a dysfunctional family system
In the years running up to the Civil War, Congress was acting like a dysfunctional family system. Here’s why knowing that matters.
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The problem with the way we talk about poverty
Our skeptical approach to talking about poverty is gross. It’s also intellectually lazy and fundamentally based on opinion, not reality.
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Continuing a failed war on terror is a moral failure
The great moral failure wasn’t only in launching the war on terror, it has been in continuing it in spite of all the moral and statistical evidence. The social share title reads “The scene of America’s longest war is now world’s terrorism hotspot”. Nearly 18 years into the war on terror, this headline should be…