Author Archives: Crystal Hernandez

11 Jul
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Extremism Is Engulfing Us

With Hobbes, Marx and Lenin affirmed the need for a strong collective leading entity pushing the march of socialism. The collectivized self needs guidance, a vanguard, to lead the masses—and use them for the task—toward the ultimate destruction of the ...

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01 Jul
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The Surroundings of Justice

To correct, for example, a perceived wrong in the far gone past is not a matter of justice. Some people think that society today must correct every wrong committed during slavery and the descendants of slaves today are owed what ...

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21 Jun
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False Narratives Will Tear Us Apart

If we insist on narratives of victimization we will tear this nation apart. That is not what we need, it is unnecessary, and it will eventuate disaster. There is a better way! False theories of victimization engender contrary false theories ...

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12 Jun
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As Michael Novak Taught, Social Justice Is Not What You think It Is

Justice primarily exist in individual persons, but it can be also expressed in the law of a community, when, aligned with right reason, the law becomes a guarantor of that exercise of giving to each his own. When justice pertains ...

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01 Jun
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The Christian response to Minnesota

It is clear that a good cause, a just cause, admits only a godly response. Injustice breeds injustice and we end with unjust outcomes. We cannot merely agree to say we "reject" but "understand" the evil reaction. This has become ...

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25 May
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Yes, I am Black!

One thing is to discuss the relative place of ethnic identity as a social construct within the constellation of “identities,” or better, “identifiers” that make up our social being and another thing is to deny that one is black. Often, ...

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18 May
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The Way Forward on the Race Question

A utopian is one who sees a solution where there is none and one who favors extremism in the pursuit of that solution. Once one believes to have found the ultimate explanatory element for a condition, the resulting behavior is ...

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14 Apr
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Freedom, Not Fear!

Here at the Freedom & Virtue Institute, even during a crisis, we insist that the entrepreneurial vocation is an intrinsic feature of the good society...Only productive societies survive and thrive. In fact, entrepreneurs are the ones who solve the main ...

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03 Sep
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The Hubris of Expanded Possibilities Hinders Our Social Life

When it comes to social privileges, they exist and they are impossible to quantify. If you were born in the year 2000 instead of, say 1400, you would live longer and better (technology privilege); if you are born in ...

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09 Aug
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The “Us” Against “Them” Fallacy: But, Oh, It Feels So Good!

Penalizing great minds can only produce sorrows for all but it seems “fair.” Let us all get a “fair share” of a shrinking universe, is the idea. As long as the space between “them” and “us” shrinks, I’ll be happy ...

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