McArdle: Courts face limits on color-blind equality
Affirmative action is an unfair solution to an unfair problem, and even if you are less bothered by this unfairness than by the unfairness of 250 years of slavery, this makes affirmative action...
View ArticleYoung: ‘The evil that men do lives after them…’
The evil of segregation that the U.S. Supreme Court highlighted in Brown v. Board of Education was the cultural power that flows from legalization of norms.
View ArticleThe color line of the 21st century
Repeatedly, the evidence suggests that we remain as racially divided today as we were 60 years ago when the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision supposedly desegregated America’s...
View ArticlePolitics as work, not ideological posturing
Perhaps we have stumbled upon a return to politics as work, not as some truncated form of religiosity in secular guise where standing on principle is the be-all and end-all of representative governance.
View ArticleHow did our legislatures become so divided by party?
The dramatically contrasting 2015 priorities distinguishing Minnesota House GOPers from State Senate Democrats are ample evidence of polarization.
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