June 22, 2014
Should there be children’s books about the Sandy Hook Elementary School Massacre?
We entertain people with war stories all the time, and the popularity of Game of Thrones has moved rape-as-entertainment from marginalized pornography to a prime time celebration. Our entertainment is vicious by any moral standard.
May 13, 2014
Are Indian tribes sovereign nations?
To talk about Native Americans only in terms of others, is to suggest that we don’t have talk about American Indians themselves, as people who are worthy of our full attention.
April 21, 2014
Can there be a world without borders?
If we no longer defined people by their heritage, how would we describe them?
February 18, 2014
What is humanity’s greatest invention?
We don’t think of Shabbat as a human invention because we think of inventions as things not time.
February 11, 2014
Do cities create their own unhappiness?
What if urban design doesn’t just contain violence, but creates it, encourages it, facilitates it?
February 6, 2014
Should you tip your professor?
Wouldn’t students get better service and more personal attention if I knew, at the end of the semester, that there would be a big wad of cash waiting for me?
February 5, 2014
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