David True

Civility, in contrast to empty rhetoric, is cultivated in pursuit of a moral end.

A week before an election that saw Oklahoma pass Measure 755, forbidding the use of international and Shari’ah law in state courts, Literary theorist and New York Times contributor Stanley Fish penned a piece for the Times.

Even as the disaster in the Gulf continues to unfold so do our efforts to understand how and why it happened. But while concerns over environmental degradation and the billions in lost revenue occupy much of the news, the question of responsibility remains central. And who is…