T.J. the Anti-Originalist
Thomas Jefferson was a radical, extremist anti-originalist, who intended a living, breathing, evolving constitution.
Thoughts on the Twentieth Anniversary of 9/11
The challenge we face as a nation is fundamentally emotional. There will be no thinking our way out of this. We can try to engage in rational debate. We can pretend that articulating our “reasons” will persuade others to support our positions. But a good-faith exchange of views is not possible when “people like YOU are destroying MY America!” Compromise and working through areas of disagreement are obviously out of the question.
100 Years of MLB Radio
August 5, 2021—Today marks the 100th anniversary of the first live broadcast of a major league baseball game over commercial radio.
Compassion for Black Rage
For black Americans, state-sanctioned mass brutalization and mass slaughter are four-hundred-year-old atrocities that persist and pervade. Insidious, irrational white fear perpetuates these atrocities and precludes any meaningful redemption, healing–or even superficial reform–from taking place.
