The flight from moral responsibility continues unabated. The politics of former President Trump and the culture that created him and that he spread, a culture of revenge, humiliation, and attacks on those possessing the wrong religion, nationality, sexuality, or political party, along with an utter disdain for democracy, is the big story of the last decade, but the craven behavior of Congress has followed closely behind.
Read MoreBoth programs lack sufficiently focused and measurable objectives warranting the use of race, unavoidably employ race in a negative manner, involve racial stereotyping, and lack meaningful endpoints. . . . We have never permitted admissions programs to work out that way, and we will not do so today.
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We look around and are disconsolate. Societies in disarray, social cohesion collapsing, old ideas appearing too old, and, all the while, hope for a prosperous and optimistic civil society looking ever more distant.
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For at least the last 50 years, both political sides, the Left and the Right, have gotten morality wrong. Put bluntly, they often simply don’t know what they are talking about.
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I say this; you say that. I say there are 20 kids in the class; you say there are 24. I say the restaurant closes on Monday; you say it does on Tuesday. I say the empty lot on the corner is zoned for commercial; you say it is zoned for residential. Vaccines are generally safe and effective; you say they are ineffective and pernicious. I say Biden won; you say, Trump.
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