To Stop Child Sex Abuse, Don’t Just Give in to Hatred of the OffendersI once attended a school board meeting where I watched a dad come to the podium to fulminate about an unconfirmed rumor that someone in a…Feb 1, 2021Feb 1, 2021
Immigration to America Isn’t Just Good for the ImmigrantsYet another caravan of migrants recently tried to march north to the United States border, driven by violence and crushing poverty in…Feb 1, 2021Feb 1, 2021
Someone Used the N-Word in my Presence. I Did Nothing.A few years ago I was outside my apartment building, smoking under the awning covering my front stoop ,when a man seeking shelter from the…Jan 4, 2021Jan 4, 2021
You Would Not Want to Live in a Country Without a Free PressThere’s a tee shirt you can buy that reads “Rope. Tree. Journalist. Some Assembly Required” on one side, with an image of a stick figure…Jan 4, 2021Jan 4, 2021
The Free Market Case for Socialized MedicineOne of the more potent attack strategies against Sen. Bernie Sanders in both his runs for the presidency, in 2016 and again last year, was…Jan 4, 2021Jan 4, 2021
Even before factoring in the catastrophic effects of covid-19, the years since the election of…But before succumbing to despair, I invite the progressively oriented reader to step back and consider the broader sweep of history, the…Dec 7, 2020Dec 7, 2020
Goodbye, Columbus: Why Monuments To The Explorer Must GoThe New York Times columnist Ross Douthat recently weighed in on the question of toppling monuments and scrubbing other memorials to…Jul 7, 2020Jul 7, 2020
