There is nothing simple about identity politics, even though it belongs to the basic creed of our nation: E pluribus unum out of many,...

If one’s “conscience” refers to one’s awareness or focus, then there doesn’t seem to be much space or time in this campaign for a “civic...

When I imagine conversations that promote a climate of justice, I have assumed that the conversations would be in our “mother tongue”—the...

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...

The highly regarded writer and activist, Wendell Berry, thinks so. In his latest book, The Need to be Whole: Patriotism and the History...

When people commit crimes against humanity, do they lose their own humanity? The notion of “Our Humanity” played a central role in A...

To understand the point of A Climate of Justice, it’s necessary to acknowledge that we always live in some historical context. The...

It’s true that my book, A Climate of Justice, was written by a white man. Is that significant? Some white men, of course, might not see...

This interview may seem a bit strange, since I composed the whole thing. Still, your nomination to the Supreme Court raises some...

If reparations are necessary, then they are the only way to change the current course of “American Prosperity,” if I may use that term to...

Instead of saying “consider the source” when we hear something strange, we could also say “consider the context. While the first option...

I can imagine that some Trump voters have rolled their eyes more than once when learning what they voted for when voting for Trump. The...

Socialism brings to mind an area of concern that individualism ignores: the social. This is actually a rather recent “discovery.” The...