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Earth Day 2020 and the Coronavirus
In Richard Powers’ novel, The Overstory , the character, Patricia, standing in front of a grove of trees, expresses her gratitude for the...

Marvin T. Brown
Apr 21, 2020


Creating a Climate of Justice and Limiting American prosperity
If there is one thing we must, absolutely must, learn from this epidemic is how to accept limits. This is not the land of “unlimited...

Marvin T. Brown
Apr 14, 2020


Good Friday Reflections During the Coronavirus Epidemic
When I think as a Christian theologian, which is not that often, I often ask myself where is Jesus Christ today? Some say he is in their...

Marvin T. Brown
Apr 9, 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...

Marvin T. Brown
Apr 6, 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...

Marvin T. Brown
Apr 3, 2020


The Pandemic and Climate Change
Can we take the economic slowdown caused by the Coronavirus Pandemic as an occasion to design a more sustainable future? That’s the...

Marvin T. Brown
Mar 29, 2020


What part of corporations do you want to stimulate?
The most controversial aspect of the Congressional stimulus package evolves around its “help” to corporations. As I understand it, the...

Marvin T. Brown
Mar 26, 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...

Marvin T. Brown
Mar 22, 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...

Marvin T. Brown
Mar 20, 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...

Marvin T. Brown
Mar 18, 2020
The Coronavirus exposure of Social Insecurity
It would be a shame to ignore what we can learn from the coronavirus about the relationship between individual and social health. ...

Marvin T. Brown
Mar 12, 2020


Who will protect us?
All human communities have to do three things: provide for one another, protect one another, and find social meaning. If a community does...

Marvin T. Brown
Mar 3, 2020


The Clash of Stories on the National Mall
The Museum for African American History and Culture has six floors, and most people start their visit, as I did, by taking an elevator...

Marvin T. Brown
Feb 25, 2020
The Tailwinds of American Prosperity
The tailwinds are strong They carry our wrongs, If things don’t change, we’ll get where we’re going. Some suffer, some don’t Some go with...

Marvin T. Brown
Feb 17, 2020
The Climate of Justice and the Protection of Civilians
As you would imagine, in a climate of justice civilians are protected; protected by citizens who enforce the rule of law. When one...

Marvin T. Brown
Feb 12, 2020


The Atlantic Climate of Injustice
Sometimes a picture is actually worth a thousand words. This may be one of them. The climate of injustice caused by the Atlantic...

Marvin T. Brown
Feb 9, 2020
The Advantage of Socialism
Socialism brings to mind an area of concern that individualism ignores: the social. This is actually a rather recent “discovery.” The...

Marvin T. Brown
Feb 5, 2020
Climate of Justice and Climate Justice
So, what’s the difference between the widely used phrase “climate justice” and the climate of justice? The climate of justice and climate...

Marvin T. Brown
Feb 3, 2020
A Climate of Justice and the Rule of Law
So, what is the difference between a climate of justice and a climate of injustice? One difference is that in a climate of injustice,...

Marvin T. Brown
Jan 27, 2020
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