Small-Tent Democrats
A Short Take Post A recent article tells the story of the efforts of local rural Democratic candidates finding a […]
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Short Take
Education, Moral Perspectives, PoliticsAmerican Universities in Danger
American Universities in Danger
Part I: What’s Happening and Why
Has anything changed in the six years since I published Nurturing Decent Human Beings: The Case for Moral Education in
American Universities in Danger
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Politics
Positioning Democrats to Earn the Support and Confidence of More Voters
I am not alone, of course, in finding the U.S. political news alarming, deeply distressing, and exhausting. Each day reveals
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Moral Perspectives
A Flawed Global Survey of Morals
A recent Pew Research survey of moral and ethical views in 25 countries garnered many headlines about the US being
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Education, Politics
Throwing Fuel on the Bonfire of the Humanities
As a teacher and sometime scholar of the Humanities and a recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for
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Moral Perspectives, Politics
A Vision for Democrats in a Time of Crisis
Let’s face it. The only available oppositional force that can stop MAGA at this time and in the foreseeable future
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Moral Perspectives, Politics
The MAGA Attack on Empathy
In several previous blogs, I analyzed how morality easily gets derailed because we frequently act as though it only pertains
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Author News
My Website and Blog: A New Chapter Begins
About two years ago I scrapped my website and stopped writing my blog that was focused on the moral dimension
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Moral Perspectives
What We Too Often Get Wrong about Morality
The bottom line that we need to keep coming back to is this: While there is a private aspect to
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Education, Moral Perspectives
Attacks on Teaching Racial History
Our political madness seems to have no end. It is just so frustrating that any dialog about matters of national
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