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Marvin T. Brown
Jun 16, 2020
Who Will Pay for This?
Good question. But not really answerable until we know who or what is included in the “this.” In fact, you could probably do a bias...
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Marvin T. Brown
Jun 1, 2020
Trump’s America
True, the deaths of over 100,000 persons offers us a good picture of Trump’s America, especially when we know that thousands could have...
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Marvin T. Brown
May 26, 2020
Farm loyalty and Meat processing Plants
When I was a kid on our family farm in Nebraska, my brother and I made sure that my calf would grow up to become a well-fed cow. Raising...
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Marvin T. Brown
May 18, 2020
Afropessimism and White masters
We all know that people read books from their own perspective, but with Frank B. Wilderson III’s book, Afropessimism, I am fully aware of...
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Marvin T. Brown
May 12, 2020
Language matters: Should we say “plantation” or “slave farm”?
What does the term “concentration camp” bring to mind? What about “Internment camp” or “re-education center”? Is the word “plantation”...
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Marvin T. Brown
May 4, 2020
The Public and the Social
The epidemic continues to challenge our thinking and feelings about our understanding of ourselves. Sickness and death, of course, are...
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Marvin T. Brown
Apr 27, 2020
Why has the Environmental Movement failed us?
It’s not clear what question Michael Moore’s new film, “Planet of the Humans” is trying to answer, but a good guess would be that it is a...
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Marvin T. Brown
Apr 21, 2020
Earth Day 2020 and the Coronavirus
In Richard Powers’ novel, The Overstory, the character, Patricia, standing in front of a grove of trees, expresses her gratitude for the...
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Marvin T. Brown
Apr 14, 2020
Creating a Climate of Justice and Limiting American prosperity
If there is one thing we must, absolutely must, learn from this epidemic is how to accept limits. This is not the land of “unlimited...
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Marvin T. Brown
Apr 9, 2020
Good Friday Reflections During the Coronavirus Epidemic
When I think as a Christian theologian, which is not that often, I often ask myself where is Jesus Christ today? Some say he is in their...
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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
Apr 3, 2020
Will the Epidemic Change Social Habits?
The coronavirus epidemic has certainly stopped us from doing what we usually do. Without a doubt, it has disrupted many habits, and even...
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Marvin T. Brown
Mar 29, 2020
The Pandemic and Climate Change
Can we take the economic slowdown caused by the Coronavirus Pandemic as an occasion to design a more sustainable future? That’s the...
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Marvin T. Brown
Mar 26, 2020
What part of corporations do you want to stimulate?
The most controversial aspect of the Congressional stimulus package evolves around its “help” to corporations. As I understand it, the...
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Marvin T. Brown
Mar 22, 2020
It’s not like war, it’s like the New Deal
In my last post, I argued that the language of war was inappropriate for talking about the coronavirus epidemic. When the Governor of...
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Marvin T. Brown
Mar 20, 2020
The Coronavirus and the Language of War
My last post caught what turned out to be a brief moment when the President’s tone at a press conference appeared to express a concern...
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Marvin T. Brown
Mar 18, 2020
The President’s tone and a Climate of Justice
Commentators have pointed out that the President’s tone in his most recent press conferences had changed considerably from his earlier...
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Marvin T. Brown
Mar 12, 2020
The Coronavirus exposure of Social Insecurity
It would be a shame to ignore what we can learn from the coronavirus about the relationship between individual and social health. ...
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Marvin T. Brown
Mar 3, 2020
Who will protect us?
All human communities have to do three things: provide for one another, protect one another, and find social meaning. If a community does...
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