This country is in the middle of an ongoing debate that only occasionally flirts with coherence about the role of a free press in a democratic society. The results of various polls suggest that the American public has an understanding of the First Amendment that ricochets wildly between somewhere between woeful and “Are you...
(This is the second and concluding segment of “Homophobia is a social disease.”) It would seem that the underpinning of the “limited constitutional rights for gays” cause is essentially enabled by the idea that their homosexual orientation is a “choice” rather than something with a significant genetic component. While anyone who has ever given...
The probability that the United States Government will ever provide any semblance of a reparations gesture to black Americans is, sadly, almost nil, at least in anything approaching my lifetime and well beyond (alluding to the previous blog entry). But here’s something thought to be a staple of the liberal agenda that will come...
(This is the second and concluding segment of “Our national debt to blacks is real.”) Many Americans, white and black, have started from nothing and reached great heights, but many more have used the gifts rightly handed down from earlier generations as much-needed and appreciated steps on that metaphorical ladder. To deny or ignore...
Here’s an admittedly controversial hypothesis: anyone who insists that we owe black Americans absolutely nothing at all in light of the residual effects of slavery, Jim Crow and decades of segregation and discrimination is a racist. Or a bigot. Or maybe both. The fact that such a statement is inflammatory doesn’t necessarily mean that...
With the 10th anniversary of 9/11 approaching, I found myself reading a lot of material that provided historical context for the tragedy, which I always thought was largely overlooked or usually glossed over. One of the more intriguing books I encountered, Susan Faludi’s The Terror Dream published in 2007, included a passage that I...