Culture, Politics We Need to Reclaim the Language of Solidarity Our everyday language has been taken hostage by politics. Terms like liberty, freedom, science and love have all been claimed The American Commons Posted on May 15, 2021
Culture Herman Herzog and a Sense of Place Instead of churning out leaders in the model of Penn’s founder Benjamin Franklin, it sometimes feels like today’s Ivy Leagues The American Commons Posted on May 15, 2021
Culture, Politics Americans Aren’t Having Kids. That’s Disastrous News. A dwindling pool of laborers and taxpayers means that our ability to pay for infrastructure, safety nets, and social programs The American Commons Posted on May 8, 2021
Culture, Faith Your Politics Are Religious Whether You Realize It Or Not If everyone is religious in some way, and all people have a part in creating the political environment, there needs to be The American Commons Posted on May 8, 2021
Faith, Politics The Two Major Parties Don’t Represent Me (Interviews With Normal People) We need God to intervene in our lives and save us, and no human government, no matter how godly or well-constructed, will The American Commons Posted on May 8, 2021
Politics We Need Alternatives To Liberalism. A New Book Points The Way Forward. If the sickness within modern America is rooted in liberalism's individualism, then it can only be healed by the solidarity The American Commons Posted on May 1, 2021
Faith, Politics What Would Reparations Look Like? Throughout Reconstruction there was effort made to break the dependency of newly freed slaves from the old landowners, but The American Commons Posted on May 1, 2021
Culture The American Dream Means More Than We Realize We need a shift in politics that considers true freedom as being afforded the opportunity to do not just what we want to do The American Commons Posted on May 1, 2021
Culture, Politics We’re Accustomed To Fake Centrism. It’s Left Us With A Void. Limbaugh's show (and others like it) created a centroid of ridicule and mockery about important issues that deserve serious The American Commons Posted on May 1, 2021