Social Justice: Articles

Feb 01 2012

Business As Usual at The New York Times

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Feb-01-2012
For a picture of how low the level of public discourse has sunk in America, look no further than the New York Times.  In an editorial ...
Jan 31 2012

The Catholic Church Fights Back

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jan-31-2012
I mentioned this story last week, but there is a new development in the difficult situation Catholic organizations have been put into by ...
Jan 28 2012

The Problems of Prisons

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jan-28-2012
The New Yorker has a truly great article chronicling the current state of the prison system and laying out suggestions for improvement.  I've always been ...
Jan 28 2012

The Stealth Wealth Tax

By J. Victor Thompson | Posted in CJS Forum, Featured Post | Jan-28-2012
The U.S. Federal Reserve recently announced that it would continue its policy of holding overnight interest rates between zero and 0.25% into 2014. It also ...
Jan 25 2012

Republicans’ Effort to Overturn Obamacare

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jan-25-2012
As we get closer to the coming elections, Republicans are promising to overturn Obamacare if given the power in November.  But what, if anything, will ...
Jan 24 2012

Newt Turns the Tables

By Ken Connor | Posted in Featured Post, Ideas in Action | Jan-24-2012
"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned."  No doubt this truism was at the top of Newt Gingrich's mind as he responded to John King's ...
Jan 20 2012

Quick and Easy Disaster Housing

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jan-20-2012
A friend recently pointed me to an exciting new technology in disaster housing.  I hadn't heard of this concept before, but Reaction Housing has created ...
Jan 19 2012

Christian and Libertarian

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jan-19-2012
Norman Horn of LibertarianChristians.com wrote for The Washington Post a couple of weeks back, asking "Can a Christian be a Libertarian?" (...
Jan 18 2012

What’s the Deal with SOPA?

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jan-18-2012
If you hadn't heard of it before, you definitely encountered "SOPA" on the Internet today. The House's Stop Online Piracy Act and its Senate counterpart ...
Jan 17 2012

Controlling Your Own Life, Despite Age and Ailment

By Zachary Gappa | Posted in Blog | Jan-17-2012
The New York Times shares an inspirational story about Verona Peters, a 67 year old woman who takes 300 pills a month to deal with ...

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