Posted in Random Babble, Sweet on Sep 23rd, 2008 5 Comments »
This weekend I had the privilege to visit Central High in Little Rock with Liberty Girl, the school that – as she points out in the previous post – 51 years ago today was an international focal point for racial justice. Two ideas quickly stood out in my mind as I watched video clips [...]
Posted in Sweet on Apr 2nd, 2008 2 Comments »
We like to draw attention to the problems that exist in our country today, yet we live in a remarkably wealthy, peaceful and free society.
Steven Pinker writes in the New Republic, for example, that horrifying violence used to be commonplace:
Cruelty as entertainment, human sacrifice to indulge superstition, slavery as a labor-saving device, conquest [...]
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