I just read “Some Arizona University Programs Threatened by Proposed Ban on Affirmative Action” by Peter Schmidt (author of Color and Money), and it reminded me of a few questions I asked of a few Black and Hispanic lawyers during a recent meeting. Here are paraphrased versions of the questions I asked.
1) Why would a [...]
Sherrylin Ifill’s “Musings for Thanksgiving Dinner” inspired me to share a comment about an excellent post-Thanksgiving dinner conversation I participated in. After rereading my comment a few minutes ago, I decided to re-publish it here.
Before our dinner guests arrived, I had predicted there would be too little political-ideological disagreement among them to enable us to [...]
Here’s another lengthy comment I submitted to the discussion thread for Cobb’s “The First 22 Rules” and that I thought was good enough to share here as a blog post.
I’m not a huge fan of Theodore Roosevelt for several reasons, but I find myself returning to his writings, especially his famous speeches “The Strenuous Life” [...]