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Marvin T. Brown
Oct 23
Time for a Civic Conscience
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...
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Marvin T. Brown
Dec 14, 2023
Digital and Human Languages
When I imagine conversations that promote a climate of justice, I have assumed that the conversations would be in our “mother tongue”—the...
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Marvin T. Brown
Nov 29, 2023
A Conceivable Letter to House Representative Mike Johnson
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...
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Marvin T. Brown
Mar 15, 2023
Is America a Nation without a Country?
The highly regarded writer and activist, Wendell Berry, thinks so. In his latest book, The Need to be Whole: Patriotism and the History...
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Marvin T. Brown
Feb 22, 2023
America’s Soul and The Climate of Injustice
When Joe Biden spoke of saving “America’s soul” on the campaign trail, I hoped it was a temporary lapse, but it seems I was wrong. He...
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Marvin T. Brown
Apr 19, 2022
Putin’s Humanity
When people commit crimes against humanity, do they lose their own humanity? The notion of “Our Humanity” played a central role in A...
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Marvin T. Brown
Feb 1, 2022
Expanding our Contextual Awareness
To understand the point of A Climate of Justice, it’s necessary to acknowledge that we always live in some historical context. The...
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Marvin T. Brown
Jan 18, 2022
Writing While White
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...
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Marvin T. Brown
Oct 15, 2020
My Interview with Ann Coney Barrett
This interview may seem a bit strange, since I composed the whole thing. Still, your nomination to the Supreme Court raises some...
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Marvin T. Brown
Sep 15, 2020
Are Reparations Necessary?
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...
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Marvin T. Brown
Aug 19, 2020
Why we need Contextual Thinking
Instead of saying “consider the source” when we hear something strange, we could also say “consider the context. While the first option...
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Marvin T. Brown
Apr 6, 2020
Trump Voters vs. Public Health
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...
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Marvin T. Brown
Feb 5, 2020
The Advantage of Socialism
Socialism brings to mind an area of concern that individualism ignores: the social. This is actually a rather recent “discovery.” The...
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