As I continue to interact with people from the radical right who seem to see the world from such a different perspective as I do, I desperately want to understand what drives them. The disconnect on our mutual perspectives manifested itself recently in an exchange about gun rights. Among the normal rants about guns not […]
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Hating the Three-Fifths: Loving the Compromise
Recently the President of Emory University, James Wagner, has been coming under intense fire for his statement that the Three-Fifths Compromise in our original Constitution was a shining example of how opposing political camps can come to agree on something. (You can read the original story here.) Before we can judge Wagner’s comments, it’s important […]
