In a short exchange with a reader about the incitement-to-violence standard, I got to talking about our jury system. I told him I’d witnessed it in action dozens of times (as a law clerk for a trial judge, as an occasional trial attorney, … [Continue reading]
The killing of Charlie Kirk—the MAGA Right’s golden boy & recruitment engine—continues to reverberate on the citizen-side of my brain. It’s first echo was the sidelining of comic Jimmy Kimmel, but we probably share the worry that the next … [Continue reading]
I learned something that made me smile this week. An innovator at the leading edge of American education and technology (or "ed-tech") named Steve Hargadon picked up on a thesis I’d advanced some time ago in “The Amish Test & Tame … [Continue reading]
Holding two opposing thoughts in your mind at the same time is to experience “cognitive dissonance.” Being of two minds about your beliefs, ideas or values can be stressful and some find it difficult to live with the uncertainty. … [Continue reading]
This week, the ironies were hard to miss. At exactly the same time that our president was yammering on about how Russia and Ukraine were “boys being boys” and still needed to fight it out before his peacemaking skills could save the day, he … [Continue reading]
