Year: 2016

Katie Grimes, Assiastant Professor of Theological Ethics, Vanderbilt University (Nashville TN): There is no such thing as the “White Working Class” Here we encounter something quite strange: figures such as Sanders,...

“Well the first thing I’m gonna say is mandate, my ass!” Dropping some Gil Scott-Heron tunes: “Winter in America”: He had our number back in the 1970s and 1980s, and he’s still relevant...

In the last Congress, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont had the option to serve as the ranking member of Appropriations or Judiciary. He chose to take that role on the Judiciary committee which graciously allowed Sen. Barbara...

When I saw the election results, particularly when I saw the distribution of the vote, I immediately thought of former Virginia Senator Jim Webb. As a kind of self-appointed ambassador to the Scots-Irish hill people diaspora,...

This shows there are some divisions in the GOP. David Luban, Just Security: The Case Against Serving In a powerful essay written half a century ago, Hannah Arendt warned about lesser evils (pp. 35-36):     If you are...