common good

  • Guns for the Common Good?

    Those of us talking about guns have been asking the wrong questions. Rather than asking whether certain gun control laws “work,” that is, keep us safe, I think we should first ask this same question about guns.  Is it actually true,… Continue reading

  • Demonizing African-American Mothers; Preserving White Space

    On Tuesday in an Ohio courtroom, Kelly Williams-Bolar, a mother of two with no criminal record, was sentenced to 10 days in jail and placed on 3 years probation for sending her children to school in a school district in… Continue reading

  • Breast Cancer and Structural Racism

    As Dr. David Ansell of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago explains, black women are significantly more likely than white women to die from breast cancer.  The gap is so dramatic that in Chicago, every year, “3,200 black people die… Continue reading