Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

Everything (1988). Thirty years gone.

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Bill Vallicella has some interesting thoughts about the morality of suicide.

This is America, arguably the greatest nation on Earth. It was built by immigrants who came here for a better life, free from oppression.

Today, we face the greatest threat to that American Dream.

That threat is white nationalism and xenophobia.

President Trump is leading the Republican Party into a dark place with his racist speeches, hateful rhetoric and incessant lies.

Trump is a clear and present danger to this nation and the world.

His betrayal of global alliances and promises made by his predecessors has all but destroyed American influence across the planet.

His demands to build a wall across our southern border is beyond reprehensible.

It wreaks of isolationism of the Soviet Union after World War II.

Trump’s every action to install cronies to disrupt and dismantle our government is treasonous.

Congress’ job is to provide a check on the powers of the president. But lawmakers have been doing a poor job of it since Trump was elected.

Now is the time to tell Trump: Enough is enough.

It’s time to censure his hate speech. It’s time to say, “Hell no, to your wall!” It’s time to hold Trump accountable for all his lies.

As Congress tackles the budget bill, our representatives must put country before party and do what is right for America.

We must keep our promises to DACA immigrants.

We must put public funds to work on infrastructure, not walls and wars.

We must keep our promises to our allies and adhere to the terms of treaties with our adversaries.

We must stop the raping of the environment and natural resources.

Stand on the principles of decency.

Do not cower to the demands of the bully in the White House.

SAM DOBROW,

MIAMI

DACA has been made increasingly difficult by the fact that Cryin’ Chuck Schumer took such a beating over the shutdown that he is unable to act on immigration!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2018

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Philosophy ought to question the basic assumptions of the age. Thinking through, critically and carefully, what most people take for granted is, I believe, the chief task of philosophy, and it is this task that makes philosophy a worthwhile activity. Regrettably, philosophy does not always live up to its historic role. Philosophers are human beings and they are subject to all the preconceptions of the society to which they belong. Sometimes they succeed in breaking free of the prevailing ideology: more often they become its most sophisticated defenders.

(Peter Singer, "All Animals Are Equal," Philosophic Exchange 5 [1974]: 103-27, at 111)

The Captain and Me (1973).

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