In his book on the civil sphere, the sociologist Jeffery Alexander makes a distinction between State and Civil power.  Many of us are...

If God were a just God, who created everyone, then it seems weird that god would choose some people over others.  Or, put it another way,...

Both the sacred and the solemn elicit reverence, a reverence for something other than our selves.  Both invite us to be reverent, but...

Of the many barriers to a climate of justice, few appear as difficult to overcome as the contempt for the rule of law that we are...

Dear Mr. Johnson, People like me and people like you don’t often talk with each other, so I thought I would write a letter to propose...

It’s hard to underestimate the significance of the separation between church and state. Simply put, it grounds our answers to questions...

Some may imagine the civic as a space for doing good, which is fine if it doesn’t deny social estrangements. Once we include social...

Last week Twitter changed the label on NPR’s (National Public Radio) Twitter account to “Government-funded Media.” NPR responded by...

The Supreme Court’s draft statement on abortion clarifies an issue I thought a lot about when writing A Climate of Justice : “Can...

The epidemic continues to challenge our thinking and feelings about our understanding of ourselves. Sickness and death, of course, are...