Monthly Archives: October 2017

What’s Wrong with Our Country

The Compromise That Made Our Country Great To understand what’s gone wrong with our country, we have to start with what we got right.  What we got right was a compromise in the 1930s, the created the democratic capitalist system … Continue reading

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Organized Religion and the Marxist Critique

I worry that my hyper-rational friends are misunderstanding belief and the role of organized religion, and in doing so are hurting their lives. I can’t help but thinking that a lot of this ties back to the Marxist critique of religion. Continue reading

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The Stockley Verdict, Change and the Protesters

For African-Americans, the Stockley verdict is going to hurt for a long time. Our society assumes that absent proof of malicious intent, a shooting by an officer was a good-faith judgment call made in the heat of the moment. We … Continue reading

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Something Worth Protesting For

In a Facebook exchange I was asked what reform or change I thought an appropriate goal for the Stockley verdict protests.  Something that would be a real difference, and eventually lead to real change, is radical transparency into daily police/public … Continue reading

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