A white colleague tells me about the time his high school football team invited some black kids practicing in a nearby field to play a game of scrimmage. The white coaching staff contravened. He tells about the time he referred to a black female as “that lady” and his father, a physician, corrected him, “That’s […]
An interesting conversation with two colleagues this weekend. One a born again Christian, or formerly so, who says that he wants nothing to do with a God who would under any circumstances damn His children to Hell. The other a nondenominational man who rejects consensus reality altogether. “You have to know how to read the […]
We can agree that society, like any collective human endeavor, abhors a power vacuum, can’t we? Having a controlling authority of some kind is what keeps the trains running on time. So when we call for “less government,” what do we mean? Do we want less reliable trains? Of course not. Typically, we’re referring to government involvement in […]
