Growing up in the 1980's outside of Washington, DC I was inside of racial conflict resolution discussions at my junior high school. The racial tensions between the rich white suburbs and the poor black urban areas were palpable. Often the racial tension was thick and nasty – even when not a word was spoken. DC101 [...]
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mourning the death of american exceptionalism
One of the problems that we face in today's geo-political framework that is new is the attenuated boundaries on the map that used to be rather solid and definite. We now live in a world where communications and transportation force once separate and distinct cultures, ideologies, and people to rub up against each other. If [...]
the influence of the westminster confession on religious freedom
In a fascinating article, Leah Farish argues that the revised Westminster Confession offers an interpretive framework for 1st Amendment Establishment Clauses. The argument reinforces the separation of church and state powers. However, the twist is that this was not from an agnostic Enlightenment ideal, but from the content of the Westminster Confession itself as revised [...]
witness supporting prop 8 gives good reason to oppose it
This is a good example of the kind of response you get when you require reason to address the question of what would really happen to people if they were allowed to be married – even same-gender couples. When you are able to cut through the irrational fallacies of propaganda, reason points in one direction: [...]
increased education spending makes not a better student
What we have known for years is that despite an awful lot of complaining that education does not get enough money, there is no evidence that increased funding equates with better learning, or teaching. It is not about the amount of funding one has. It is all about how you spend the money that counts. [...]
