Giving Voice to our Better Angels

I was thinking about the idea of reform the other day. And how one can really judge whether a criminal (or a certain Steelers’ QB) can be judged to have changed after punishment is meted out. Is he reformed? Has she really changed? Or is he really still a jerk or a deviant at heart? [...]

R.I.P. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence, you may murder the liar, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiples violence, [...]