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April 2023
SHOULD RELIGIOUS FREEDOM PREVAIL OVER OTHER FREEDOMS?
Religion is expanding its turf into the public square at the expense of other rights and public purposes. It has little to do with faith and much to do…
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Joe Chuman
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THE INNER LIFE AND HUMAN FALLIBILITY
Appreciation for the complexity and vulnerability of others needs to lead us to greater empathy, compassion, and kindness.
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Joe Chuman
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THOSE WHO ARE “PRO-LIFE” ARE NOT PRO-LIFE
The employment of "pro-life" is a propaganda tool masking the dehumanization of women. Misogyny is at issue
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Joe Chuman
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THE PARADOX OF LIBERALISM
Democracy includes people and factions that are committed to it, civically indifferent and those who are hostile. The ultimate safeguard of democracy…
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Joe Chuman
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LINCOLN, GETTYSBURG, and AMERICA'S RENEWAL
At a time of national division, we can look back at Lincoln's address that transformed America. Then as now, we need a unifying idea and "a new birth of…
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Joe Chuman
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March 2023
CHRISTIANITY'S AMERICAN FATE: How Religion Became More Conservative and Society More Secular- A review
Democracy is severely threatened and hatred flourishes. Much is fueled by reactionary religion as society grows more secular. A pre-eminent historian of…
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Joe Chuman
6
IDENTITY POLITICS AND THE DECLINE OF FACTS, DETAILS, AND DIALOGUE
The political tribalism we experience in American society, and the irrationalism we witness, have their origins in decades past
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Joe Chuman
2
February 2023
REFLECTIONS ON THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM
An experience that left me speechless and in awe.
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Joe Chuman
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RETHINKING INDIVIDUALISM
We need to militantly defend individual rights. But in the formation of the self who we are, we owe to others.
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Joe Chuman
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OUR OBLIGATION TO ANIMALS
How we treat animals can be the starting point for a new environmental ethic.
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