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The  “Ground Zero” mosque debate in the US and the burqa debate in Europe both highlight a tension embedded in the middle of modern democratic thinking, one that I have been grappling with for years: How does the well-being of society relate to the freedom of citizens?  This issue emerged again yesterday and today in…

Daily Kos has a fascinating story on the rapid increase in whooping cough cases in California in 2004, a spike apparently correlated county by county with the number of children whose parents chose not to have them vaccinated.  This increase  in whooping cough cases has been accompanied by a increasing infant deaths.  The falsehood that…

Al Franken gave a thoughtful and disturbing speech to the American Constitution Society on the legal and moral bankruptcy of the Federalist Society and ‘conservative’ jurisprudence.  Anyone who believes that ‘conservatism’ as it currently exists has anything to do with the principles this country was founded on would be the richer by listening to Franken’s…

The growing crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, caused by BP, coming on the heels of Massey Energy’s crimes in America’s coal fields  and our rape of Iraq bring us face to face with the question of whether we have become a pirate culture, existing by taking from the weaker and giving to the stronger,…
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