Joy in a Climate of Injustice
What is joy in a climate of injustice? How should we think about Kamala Harris’s politics of joy? First, it is a radical contrast from...
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Marvin T. Brown
Jul 23
A Message to Christian Nationalists
If I understand you correctly, you want to do “God’s will,” and that you know “God’s will” from the Bible, which is “God’s Word.” In...
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Marvin T. Brown
May 28
Our Domestic Imperial Climate
Of the many barriers to a climate of justice, few appear as difficult to overcome as the contempt for the rule of law that we are...
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Marvin T. Brown
May 9
The Principle of Coherence and Conflicting Memories
In a liberal household and even in a liberal society, we tend to let each other keep their memories, even when we disagree. Most of us...
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Marvin T. Brown
Apr 3
The Civic Context of Political Campaigns
Political campaigns always occur in some context, and it turns out that the context makes quite a difference. I will use the...
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Marvin T. Brown
Nov 15, 2023
Cooperation vs Domination
Cooperation seems so normal. When I first looked at Bernard E. Harcourt’s book titled “Cooperation,” I wasn’t sure it was worth a...
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Marvin T. Brown
Aug 9, 2023
Civic vs Religious Disagreement
It’s hard to underestimate the significance of the separation between church and state. Simply put, it grounds our answers to questions...
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Marvin T. Brown
May 8, 2023
The Civic and The Christian Imagination
Some may imagine the civic as a space for doing good, which is fine if it doesn’t deny social estrangements. Once we include social...
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Marvin T. Brown
Apr 19, 2023
Public Bias
Last week Twitter changed the label on NPR’s (National Public Radio) Twitter account to “Government-funded Media.” NPR responded by...
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Marvin T. Brown
Feb 22, 2023
America’s Soul and The Climate of Injustice
When Joe Biden spoke of saving “America’s soul” on the campaign trail, I hoped it was a temporary lapse, but it seems I was wrong. He...
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Marvin T. Brown
Sep 1, 2021
The Ethics of the Withdrawal
President Biden’s decision to withdraw from Afghanistan by September 1 came, as he said, from his very core. For him, it was the right...
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Marvin T. Brown
Jul 1, 2020
When is it a mistake to agree to disagree?
Sometimes “we cannot just get along” because we don’t see a deeper mutuality that underlies our conflict. And sometimes, we become so...
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Marvin T. Brown
May 12, 2020
Language matters: Should we say “plantation” or “slave farm”?
What does the term “concentration camp” bring to mind? What about “Internment camp” or “re-education center”? Is the word “plantation”...
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Marvin T. Brown
May 4, 2020
The Public and the Social
The epidemic continues to challenge our thinking and feelings about our understanding of ourselves. Sickness and death, of course, are...
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Marvin T. Brown
Apr 6, 2020
Trump Voters vs. Public Health
I can imagine that some Trump voters have rolled their eyes more than once when learning what they voted for when voting for Trump. The...
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Marvin T. Brown
Apr 3, 2020
Will the Epidemic Change Social Habits?
The coronavirus epidemic has certainly stopped us from doing what we usually do. Without a doubt, it has disrupted many habits, and even...
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Marvin T. Brown
Mar 22, 2020
It’s not like war, it’s like the New Deal
In my last post, I argued that the language of war was inappropriate for talking about the coronavirus epidemic. When the Governor of...
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Marvin T. Brown
Mar 20, 2020
The Coronavirus and the Language of War
My last post caught what turned out to be a brief moment when the President’s tone at a press conference appeared to express a concern...
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Marvin T. Brown
Mar 18, 2020
The President’s tone and a Climate of Justice
Commentators have pointed out that the President’s tone in his most recent press conferences had changed considerably from his earlier...
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