Liberty and Justice for Everyone

Today in America, what we know and understand about what happened in the past is changing in two ways. One is honest and one is dishonest. I don’t mean that…

Shortly after posting about our 250th birthday, I came across a not dissimilar look at our 100th. An essay titled “An Uncertain Triumphalism” conjured up the old saying that “history repeats itself.” Th

You may wonder why anyone would ask such a question. After all, we fought a war over slavery, and the 13th Amendment outlawed it. The question remains relevant and important…

Some things are simple. Some are not. The way the term “Critical Race Theory” (CRT for short) is commonly used and misused every day in America is simple. Simple in…

Here we go again. The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in another critical case that could be decided by an originalist interpretation of the Constitution. The Court’s ruling,…

Have you ever had the feeling of being “a day late and a dollar short?” It hit me twice recently, and it hasn’t completely gone away. It’s a little like…

Recently, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson gave Justice Clarence Thomas and the three justices appointed immediately before her—Neil Gorsuch, Bret Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett—a history lesson in “originalism.” But I…

Does the tremendous amount of hatred over the course of human history and across the world today ever become personally overwhelming even when it’s not aimed at you? And then…

This past week, as I tried to carve out time to work on my next novel while also following the crisis in Ukraine and the Senate hearings on the new…

One of the important supporting characters in a new novel I expect to publish in the fall is a Black veteran of World War I. He got me to wondering…