Showing posts with label social contract. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social contract. Show all posts
Thursday, May 14, 2020

With Rights Come Responsibilities

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People on the Right are always talking about their rights and how the government is taking away their rights.   Whether it’s the issue of g...
Saturday, September 28, 2019

The American Social Contract in Trouble

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In my book, We Still Hold These Truths: An American Manifesto , I noted that the Republican right wing had rejected the American social...
Friday, August 9, 2019

The 2020 Election Is about the Survival of American Democracy, of Historic American Values

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The title of this piece may strike the reader as over the top, but it really isn’t.   Because it isn’t about whether the form of democr...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

Reflecting on 75 Years

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Yesterday was my 75th birthday.   Usually I treat my birthdays just like any other day, although a cause for some celebration.   I...
Wednesday, March 15, 2017

The Responsibility Crisis

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There is a crisis in the United States (I cannot speak of other countries) of a failure to take responsibility for the impact of one’s acti...
Sunday, December 27, 2015

Back to the Future, But Not Too Far!

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We are a country that is obsessed with the future, with facilitating the next phase of our “progress.”   In the process, we have lost our c...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Healing Our Nation, Healing Ourselves

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In my recent post, “The Problem Isn’t Capitalism, It’s Our Society,” (October 8, 2015), I noted that the social problems in all modern soci...