Civics and Richard Dreyfus
Close Encounters of the Civics Kind: Richard Dreyfus!
Free Speech—Pineapple on Pizza!!
The topic of free speech is complicated and huge, so I’m just going to nibble on one little piece of it, regarding free speech.
Bad SCOTUS! Final Part
The fourth anticanon decision by SCOTUS was Korematsu v. U.S.
Bad SCOTUS! Part 3: Bakeries!
This is the third of four ‘anticanon,’ Supreme Court decisions that everyone agreed were very wrong. This one has to do with bakeries. Yummm…
Bad SCOTUS! Bad SCOTUS! … Part 2
Here’s another of the ‘anticanon’ decisions, one that makes me want to travel back in time and just slap some serious sense into people.
Lucy and I Love Civics
Here we are at the end of my first “Civics” year (and Lucy’s as well.) While I’ve lost some readers (No matter how hard I try, civics just isn’t as cute as a baby lamb!), I’ve also gained some.
Another One Bites the Dust…
Another one bites the dust! Which justice’s bust is getting kicked from the Capitol building?
Liberal Democracy or Illiberal Democracy?
How do we stop our liberal democracy from sliding into an illiberal one? “To be truly democratic, people have to be willing to protect each other’s rights and interests even when they control enough votes to do otherwise.”
Democracy is a Struggle
This has been a hard lesson for me to learn: “Free people will disagree about just about everything. The art of self-government depends on a capacity for argument, persuasion, compromise, and tolerance of disagreement.” (George Parker)
American History: Face it or Erase it?
There has been an unfortunate movement in this country to ‘protect’ white children from their history. Lucky for you, I have two thoughts.