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D.E.I. vs U.M.E.
The post below was written just over a year ago, but it seems even more relevant now. David French recently wrote in the NYTimes that it...

Marvin T. Brown
Feb 5


Why do we exist?
Perhaps it was an accident. Evolution simply did not know when to stop. The planet appears to have been fine without us. There were...

Marvin T. Brown
Mar 27, 2023


Protecting the Earth’s Integrity
To create a sustainable future, we had better learn how to protect the Earth’s integrity. We could start by knowing what violating its...

Marvin T. Brown
Nov 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...

Marvin T. Brown
Feb 1, 2022


How Should We Share the Crop?
Sharecropping has a bad reputation not because it’s a bad idea, but because it was not protected from exploitation. In fact, it’s a good...

Marvin T. Brown
Nov 17, 2021


What Kind of Trouble Are We In?
We are in trouble. Is it “good trouble” as advocated by John Lewis, or some other kind? Are we heading toward something like the...

Marvin T. Brown
Sep 30, 2020


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
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