U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor released two new books, bringing her inspirational life story to children.
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Book Review: ‘One Person, No Vote: How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy’ by Carol Anderson
Everything you need to arm yourself and others against losing your Constitutionally protected right is in 'One Person, No Vote' by Carol Anders. Read it, read it again, then take action.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Justice Failed: How “Legal Ethics” Kept Me in Prison for 26 Years’ by Alton Logan with Berl Falbaum
Alton Logan tells of spending 26 years in prison for murder even though two lawyers knew he was innocent.
Read More »An Anti-Gun Advocate Sees the Fallacy of Anti-Gun Laws
We are myopically focused on the weapon, not the person. It is our blindness, not our guns, that has betrayed us.
Read More »Politics and Ethics: Moral Foundations of a Just State
Wittgenstein showed us that morality is grounded in our language and form of life. Locke and Aristotle provide the missing link.
Read More »Music Review: Various Artists – Let Freedom Sing: The Music of the Civil Rights Movement
Not just a collection of great music; it’s an audio history book.
Read More »California Gay Rights Activists Show Us Intolerance Works Both Ways
The California Supreme Court went to session earlier this week to decide whether Proposition 8 is valid or invalid.
Read More »Politics and Ethics: State-of-Nature Theories
Before politics, life was "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." Is there anything wrong with that picture, or should it matter?
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): This Beautiful City
The Civilians' new play with music is spirited and thought-provoking, with interesting characters, but suffers from a lack of plot.
Read More »Cartoon Controversy Makes Monkeys of Both Sides
Even a monkey could understand why so many are offended by Sean Delonas' cartoon in the New York Post.
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