For many years now the American academy has been besieged with the theme of “white privilege,” which holds to the notion that being born white carries its own guilt based on a sense of superiority which even the most innocent white person may not realize. In…
Question: As he lay dying at age 87 in 1864, I wonder if Chief Justice Roger B Taney had it to do all over again, would he have had any regrets about his decision in the Dred Scott v Sanford…
There are questions of Natural Law and National Identity involved in this question. From William Paley’s “Statement of the Argument” from his Natural Theology (1809)(abridged version) In crossing a heath, suppose I pitched my foot against a Stone, and…