Target Practice Troubled Teens, First Person Shooter Games, and the US Military
Before Nikolas Cruz shot seventeen people dead and injured seventeen others at a Parkland, Florida, high school on Valentine’s Day, and before Dimitrios Pagourtzis killed ten and injured thirteen at Santa Fe High School in... Read More
Respecting Religion, Rejecting Discrimination Does SCOTUS decision manage to have its cake and eat it too?
In a 7-2 ruling issued June 4, 2018, the US Supreme Court found in favor of Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop, Ltd., who refused to make a cake for a same-sex wedding. Phillips... Read More
What Consent Means and How to Teach It
The #MeToo and Time’s Up movements have highlighted how too many men have harassed or assaulted women—and men—through-out the decades and across many professions. Most attention has been focused on analyzing incidents and discussing appropriate... Read More
The Fallacy of the Armed Populace as Deterrent
Disarming a population is part of the process of tyranny, but it’s not the most critical part. Silencing free speech, preventing assembly, circumventing due process, and alienating the people from politics all take priority. Slander... Read More
If the Second Amendment Was Meant for Genocide, Is It Sacred?
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz’s new book, Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment, could be criticized for how little it seems to discuss the Second Amendment and how much it focuses on topics familiar from the author’s... Read More
Controlling Bodies: An Interview with Andrea J. Ritchie
In her groundbreaking new book, Invisible No More: Police Violence Against Black Women and Women of Color, Black lesbian activist attorney Andrea J. Ritchie builds on Angela Davis’s vision of feminist abolitionism to provide a commanding... Read More
On Policies and Purple
On May 27, 2017, The Humanist Institute hosted an all-day symposium at the First Unitarian Society of Minneapolis titled “Social Justice: Addressing the Narrative of Fear,” which included individual remarks and panel discussions with humanist,... Read More