Contraception

Contraception

When the Supreme Court sent up a trial balloon as to the future of Roe V. Wade six weeks ago, I posted on the topic of Abortion. Now that the current nine have overturned the nine of five decades ago, it is time for me to repeat some of what I wrote and expand...
James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson

James Weldon Johnson (June 17, 1871 – June 26, 1938) had a birthday last Friday, which is still celebrated posthumously every year. After receiving a degree from Atlanta University, Johnson returned home to Jacksonville, Florida in 1894 and became the principal of...
High Mindedness

High Mindedness

The current spate of anti-intellectualism is only a very specific form of a much broader and more pernicious syndrome, anti-high mindedness, the fallacious idea that applying humanitarian ideals and morality is a mistake. The problem is not new! Think of all the old...
The January Sixth Hearings

The January Sixth Hearings

I’ll start with a disclaimer! I am not a Trump hater! It is none of his policy decisions that disqualifies him from the Presidency. It’s his technique! Politics is not roller derby, and the best past presidents didn’t try to ram everything through like a roller derby...