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Hamas, Israel & Moral Injury

Posted on November 10, 2023 by Duane Cady

The horrific attack on Israeli civilians has rightly brought global condemnation of Hamas and solidarity with Israel reminiscent of global support for the US after the attacks on civilians in the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001. Sadly, like the US, Israel has squandered global support –as did the US after 9/11– by its own retaliation, killing ten times the…

It Was a Slap

Posted on March 31, 2022 by Duane Cady

It was a Slap Come on people; it was a slap. We get worked up when an actor loses his temper momentarily and slaps a comedian in response to a cruel joke aimed at the actor’s wife –due to the look of her hair, a condition caused by a disease. Critics from all corners insist “there is no place for…

White Rage

Posted on February 21, 2021 by Duane Cady

We know what caused the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. Yes, the President encouraged the protesters he gathered to support his effort to upend the election results, to “take back America,” to “fight, fight, fight.” President Trump urged domestic terrorism, but he didn’t cause it. The real cause of the violent storming of the Capitol, threatening…

Remembering Nancy J. Holland

Posted on April 4, 2020 by Duane Cady

Dr. Nancy Holland, Professor of Philosophy Emerita at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, was born on September 3, 1947, and died peacefully January 25, 2020, two years after her cancer diagnosis. She said she was not in pain through her months of treatment. She kept reading, enjoyed time with her family and friends, and worked to outline two fantasy…

Reparations Considered

Posted on October 9, 2019 by Duane Cady

Reparations Considered Now that reparations have entered the 2020 presidential campaign, it’s time to have a serious look at who, what, and why. What about when and where? When has been put off for hundreds of years already, so don’t hold your breath. Where? Here, in the US. The notion of reparations has been cycling politically since the Emancipation Proclamation…

Remembering Mulford Q. Sibley

Posted on May 20, 2019 by

I met Mulford Q. Sibley in the fall of 1972. A colleague and I were working to start a new chapter of the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union, one near our college in rural Minnesota, so we invited Professor Sibley of the Political Science Department at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus. He was kind enough to come, spoke on…

“Warism — taking war for granted as morally acceptable,
even morally required — is the primary obstacle to peace.”

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