Civil Rights Archives

Free Speech, Civil Rights and the Moral Imperative of Persuasion

The guarantee of freedom of expression in the First Amendment to United States Constitution has never abridged a publisher’s right to determine what content he prints in his newspaper. Just…

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13 min

Politics

Education: An Economy of Exclusivity

Readers over the age of fifty probably remember the 1970s as a depressing decade of stagflation, an oil crisis—and disco music. They may recall Studio 54, a New York nightclub…

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10 min

Politics

The Party Switch ‘Myth’

There are many odd features of the narrative based epistemology that governs party politics. One of them is the need for stories connecting the opposing party’s guilt and corruption, in…

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12 min

Politics

The Case For Identity Politics

Identity politics has become the punching bag of liberals and conservatives alike, despite being rather ill defined. It is neither the world-ending menace that conservatives posit, nor the monolith that…

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14 min

Identity Politics Does Not Continue the Work of the Civil Rights Movements

It is nearly beyond dispute that the Civil Rights Movement, second-wave liberal feminism, and Gay Pride were liberal projects, both in the broad philosophical sense and in the narrower meaning…

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