Rollie's Blog: Public Matters

These are exercises in thinking about public matters with the conviction that publics matter. Publics are where we fulfill our highest human capacity: to speak and act in association to shape our common world. The institutions that guarantee, protect, and comprise our publics matter. They deserve the ongoing critical and strategic thinking of all of us who would be citizens.

Wednesday, January 2, 2019

Cheney the Vice

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I'm going to see the movie "Vice" and read a review by a historian that says the film gets it wrong.  The problem with Cheney ...
Monday, December 3, 2018

Soul Growing and the Public Faith

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All my colleagues know too well that I have been grieving with most of them in the election of Donald Trump as an instance of a worldwide tu...
Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Argument

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Letter from V responding to Bernie who asked why he is so angry after he gratuitously sent out an article attacking Obama from 8 years ago ...
Monday, November 19, 2018

Assimilation and Acculturation

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The worst thing the founders did was build slavery into the American political economy and so creating a house divided. Even after civil war...
Monday, October 29, 2018

David Brooks is a Nationalist?

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David Brooks is a Nationalist? He said so in a recent article. But he also described what he meant. He meant that his main claim of refere...
Sunday, October 7, 2018

The Civil Religion

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In the leisure of aging years, I struggle to understand the distresses of our present situation: the persistence of racism, deterioration o...
Monday, September 10, 2018

It's About Time!

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It’s About Time! Is time real or an illusion? And who gives a damn? Physicist Lee Smolin does, and he asks about it in his book: Ti...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Is the Pope Catholic?

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That's a jocular response to a question that has an obvious answer. But now it's a not so funny response in the light of the pries...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018

New Great Awakening

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My previous reflection (8-4-18) was on culture, especially religion, private and public. The genius of the founders was building a public...
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