Reparations Benefit All of Us
Some of the talk about reparations seems to assume that reparations will only benefit Black people, but unrepaired social injustices...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Mar 15
Is America a Nation without a Country?
The highly regarded writer and activist, Wendell Berry, thinks so. In his latest book, The Need to be Whole: Patriotism and the History...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Feb 2
The Context of Character
Martin Luther King Jr. stated in his “I Have A Dream” speech that he hoped that one day his children would be judged not by the color of...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Nov 22, 2022
The Climate in Egypt and Qatar
If you want to see what a “climate of justice” looks like, look at the COP27 meeting in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. First, the rich nations...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Feb 1, 2022
Expanding our Contextual Awareness
To understand the point of A Climate of Justice, it’s necessary to acknowledge that we always live in some historical context. The...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Dec 7, 2021
Philanthropy vs Reparations
One would hope that philanthropy could promote justice. After all, that’s where the money is. According to Rob Reich, the Director of...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Aug 11, 2021
Prosperity and Justice
Is justice necessary for prosperity or can we aim for prosperity now and leave justice for later? Can the good crowd out the right? If...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Jul 14, 2021
Resetting our American Thermostat
Did you ever wonder what prevents us from moving closer to a climate of justice—a social predisposition for fairness? Could it be a kind...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Mar 10, 2021
Reflections after 50 posts
When I started this blog, I thought my book, Climate of justice, An Ethical Foundation for Environmentalism, would appear sometime in...
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Marvin T. Brown
- Aug 19, 2020
Why we need Contextual Thinking
Instead of saying “consider the source” when we hear something strange, we could also say “consider the context. While the first option...
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