Common Good, Common Ground, Common Sense
“Truly I tell you,” he continued, “no prophet is accepted in his hometown. I assure you that there were many widows in Israel in Elijah’s time, when the sky was shut for three and a half years and there was a severe famine throughout the land. Yet Elijah was not sent to any of them,…
Politics as usual, especially in California, has devolved into “junk politics.” It’s as addictive as junk food. Most politicians are “pitch” people. Most pander to their constituents. And most of us know how the game is played. It’s a dismal game that we need to stop playing.”
“Douglass’s experience inoculated him from both the demoralizing arguments of the white supremacist theologians with whom he clashed throughout his life and the suspicions of radicals who came to believe that Christianity irreducibly belonged to the slaver caucus.”
The famed abolitionist was no theocrat, but he exemplified the transforming power that particular religious convictions – in this case, explicitly Christian convictions of a deeply traditionalist stripe – can have even on intensely corrupt and sclerotic political systems.
What would a pro-life constitutional strategy look like? Would it involve simply overruling Roe v. Wade and returning abortion policy to the states, where the states could then be persuaded to use their newly-won states rights to restrict abortion? Or should pro-lifers adopt the view that legal abortion is itself unconstitutional, and that the Supreme Court and…
And then there were two, well, just under two weeks left in California’s special gubernatorial recall election. There are good things happening and bad things, as well. As a recall candidate, I’m also starting to take stock and look ahead. Let’s start on the bright side. “Erin,” a very young lady, wrote to say “Dear…
To treat people as people is much different—and much more important—than treating things as things. To use a fork to dig a trench, rather than its intended use in spearing green beans and other assorted foods, would be inefficient. Forks are ill-suited for trench-digging, what with their slots and rather short stature. Still, there is…
“The cooperative movement is sustained by a spirit of open solidarity.” (#434) New movements like the American Solidarity Party are regrouping after 2020 and starting to prepare for the challenges and opportunities of the 2024 election cycle. It is now a great time to reconsider the fundamentals of solidarity principles. Other movements around the world…
[Campaign Diaries is a new series at The American Commons. James Hanink is a candidate running for Governor of California on the American Solidarity Party ticket. Every other week, James will publish a “campaign diary” entry here at The American Commons magazine.] * The gubernatorial recall ballots are here! September 14th is the due date for their return….
“The political witness of Spurgeon is a welcome punch in the mouth.”