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A Conceivable Letter to House Representative Mike Johnson

Dear Mr. Johnson, People like me and people like you don’t often talk with each other, so I thought I would write a letter to propose...

The trouble with Christian Nationalism

What’s troubling about Christian Nationalism is not only its arrogance, but also its withdrawal from reality. At least that seems to be...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

My Interview with Ann Coney Barrett

This interview may seem a bit strange, since I composed the whole thing. Still, your nomination to the Supreme Court raises some...

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