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Guest Post: “An Expanded Vision of ‘Western Heritage’: Why It Matters for Education”

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September 3, 2020December 9, 2021
Author: David Green Ahmanson

The solution to the narrow focus of classical liberal arts education is to preserve their time-tested methods, but broaden their subject matter in both geography and time beyond ‘the Western Tradition’ as conventionally understood. In this piece, I summarize thousands […]

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More on Christian Faith and Land Use: The Issue of Profiling

  • Culture,
  • Politics,
  • Religion
August 31, 2020January 4, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

The big moral issue behind intentional racism, classism, and the like is the issue of ‘profiling’.  Should we assume that, because of people’s appearance, color, or income, they would be more or less likely to do certain things?  Or be […]

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What My Christian Faith Brings to My Views on Land Use

  • Culture,
  • Politics
August 8, 2020August 30, 2022
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I have attempted to think through the implications of the teaching of the Scripture, and of the Christian faith, for land use and land use law.  One issue for me is that a lot of land use law in our […]

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The Police and the Mental Health People

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July 20, 2020July 14, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

What is to be done about the police and the police culture?  Some say ‘spend less money on them’.  Some say what we used to call ‘integrate’.  Some say ‘teach them to use nonviolent coercion, like mental health aides’.  But […]

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Anti-White Racist Remarks are Tolerated Because of White Privilege

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July 14, 2020April 6, 2021
Author: Howard Ahmanson

In which I argue that it is precisely because of ‘white privilege’ that we tolerate a double standard of ‘racist’ remarks about white people from others; because we aren’t ‘hurt’ as much.  Sometimes outspoken women and men, including college professors, […]

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I Got Into a Traffic Accident in a Black Area, and Nobody Played the ‘Race Card’

  • California,
  • Culture
July 8, 2020July 14, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A story in which my own experience in a black neighborhood convinced me that the hope for reconciliation is not dead It was late February, and I was on my way to a men’s retreat in Malibu, California.  And I […]

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Guest Post: “A Tale of Two Sitcoms”

  • Culture
June 27, 2020June 26, 2020
Author: Roberta Green Ahmanson

Looking for a break from wondering what the world will be like when the lockdown is over?  Two multiple-award-winning TV series from the dawn of this millennium might give you the diversion you need. Monk [2002-2009] starring Tony Shalhoub as […]

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Book Notice:  “Losing the Good Portion,” by Leon Podles

  • Culture,
  • Religion
June 10, 2020June 10, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

There have been claims throughout the history of Christianity that portions of the Church were excessively feminized.  Though author Leon Podles is a Catholic himself, most of the space in his book, Losing the Good Portion: Why Men are Alienated […]

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The Gerontocratic Democracy of Old Africa, and Gerontocracy in Our Own Time 

  • Culture
May 22, 2020May 27, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Young people have always probably chafed against their elders.  But in Africa, a gerontocratic system was instituted, which at least frustrated the development of a hereditary elite.  And we are not without elements of gerontocracy in our own society.  I […]

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On the Urbanist Classic, “Crabgrass Frontier,” by Kenneth T. Jackson

  • Culture,
  • Economics
May 12, 2020July 7, 2020
Author: Howard Ahmanson

One of the classic books on the history of suburbia is Kenneth Jackson’s Crabgrass Frontier. It came out in 1985, two years before my personal favorite, Bourgeois Utopias, by Robert Fishman.  This book notice discusses Crabgrass Frontier in view of […]

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