Diversity is Diverse
In many parts of American society, diversity has become the holy grail. It is the achievement to be pursued above all others. Educational, economic, and cultural success either take lower priority or...
Expanding Educational Freedom
As students begin returning to formal learning after their Christmas break, the debate continues about whether schooling should be online, in-person, or some mixture of the two. Different people prefer different approaches,...
Resolutions are Better than Revolutions
With the New Year, come the New Year’s resolutions. Although the unlikelihood of persevering in such resolutions is so widely acknowledged that the whole idea has become a parody for some, the...
Derrick Bell and Critical Race Theory
Derrick Bell can be said to be the creator of critical race theory (CRT). As an academic discipline, it is rather new, but it is similar to prior assessments of race in America....
To Live is to Risk
Fear of death is one of the primal forces that drives human action. It is universal and potent. Scripture confronts it and recognizes it. “My heart is in anguish within me, the...
Dignity is the Foundation
“To thrive, democratic societies require a vision for the purpose of our shared life. The answer for those of us in the West is that human dignity and flourishing—personal, social, cultural, and...
Theories of Race
The trans-Saharan slave trade dates to the second century AD, and fully functioning slave markets abounded for centuries in various parts of the world. However, slavery largely had died out in Europe...
Self-Control and Self-Government
The grand experiment of the American republic was based, James Madison said, on “the capacity of mankind for self-government.” Adams and the other founders believed that the era of political absolutism—of lodging...
Lent and the Free Society
In the Western Christian tradition, the season of Lent begins this week. This season of penance in preparation for Easter is highly relevant to the maintenance of a free and virtuous society....