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Born and raised in "left coast" California, I moved to Pennsylvania in 2006 to begin a teaching position at one of the state universities. I spent my youth in political apathy, being disillusioned by the superficiality of politicians on both sides of the aisle. I have realized over the years that apathy is actually worse than action, even if the action is inconsequential.
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Eric Johnson
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In Defense of Activist Judges: How California Proposition 8 Reminds Us that Legislating From the Bench Isn’t Always a Bad Thing
Over time, our society as a whole has grown more comfortable with the idea of integrated schools, interracial marriage, and people of color in positions of power than would have been imaginable half a century ago.
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The Enemy of the Good: The Social Impact of the American Prison Part 2
Even if our economy were healthy enough to sustain our current incarceration rate, there are ways in which our current system of justice can actually contribute to social deviance.
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The Enemy of the Good: The Social Impact of the American Prison
In their efforts to appear tough on crime both the left and the right have led us towards a model of criminal justice that arguably does more harm than good.
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Texas Text: How Lone Star Evangelicals Are Determining What The Nation’s Children Learn, Why It Isn’t Education, And Why It Might Not Be So Bad After All
To study the regrettable parts of our past is not to excoriate America, and it is delusional to imply that the United States has never done wrong.
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Abominations: Shrimp, Sodomy, and the Lame Case Against Gay Marriage
The King James translation of Leviticus uses the same word abomination to describe clam chowder as it does homosexuality.
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What Wright Got Right
However the high visibility of African-Americans in American politics, society and culture has arguably lulled us into a false sense that we have resolved our problems with race and that we have finally achieved a society in which everyone is born with equal opportunities
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What Reagan Owes to Deep Throat: Musings on a Time Before the Culture Wars
The Sixties and Seventies were a time when ideological battle lines were drawn that have been a potent force in electoral politics ever since.
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Bad Sequels: 80s Cinema, Super-Villains, and Iran
As we approach the 20th anniversary of the end of the Cold War it is uncanny how much we have begun to resurrect icons from the past, a past that the generation now reaching voting age is too young to have ever known
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School Tase
Tasers leave no physical evidence of excessive force, making police brutality difficult to prove. These advantages arguably lead to officers using their tasers indiscriminately in situations of questionable necessity.
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The Sleep of Reason
Like it or not, we still live under the shadow of the Gipper nearly 20 years after he left office, and after all that time many of the ideological excesses of that era are just now beginning to become mainstream in American political discourse.
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