Personal Rights and the Common Good
Let me ask you a question. What’s more important, my personal rights or the common good? We could put it in more specific terms. What’s more important: My right to bear arms or the safety of school children who are often the targets of mass shootings? My right to not wear a mask or the…
A Lament for 2020
A Year of Suffering I’m a white male. What that means is that I’m a person for whom neither the color of my skin nor my gender have ever been an obstacle. I’ve had other obstacles, but not those. And so there’s a part of me that feels unqualified to speak into the current moment. …
