In 1960, 44.2% of Americans lived in “Ozzie and Harriet” households, defined as a married couple living with their own children under eighteen. (Okay, so maybe mom was hitting the bottle in her suburban kitchen and dad was smacking the kids around when he came home from golfing with his buddies, but in Ozzie and Harriet time we didn’t ask such impertinent questions. They were married, the kids were theirs, God was pleased. End of story.)
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Justice
My religious tradition has a lot to say about justice. Beginning with the Talmudic injunction “Justice, Justice, thou shalt pursue,” the nature of our obligations to ourselves and others has been an abiding preoccupation of Jews..
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Gerrymandering
The Indiana General Assembly is preparing to embark upon what individual legislators call redistricting, and what the rest of us call gerrymandering. It will be an intensely partisan endeavor.
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A Prolegomenon on Restraint of Children: Implicating Constitutional Rights
News media have brought to public attention a disturbing number of deaths proximal to the use of physical restraints in the past year. Use of these procedures has been shown to be dangerous and lethal to patients. In this discussion we explore restraints as an intervention and argue that their use may not only be unethical as a therapeutic intervention, but that their use may have constitutional implications…
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Political Evolution
Just when the snickering and bad internet jokes about the Kansas Board of Education were beginning to die down, along come the two leading contenders for the Presidency to demonstrate that they, at least, haven’t evolved. Or perhaps a more…
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