On my way to teach last week, I saw a kid wearing a t-shirt that had big block letters on it. Despite staring at the letters for quite some time, I couldn’t ultimately decide what they spelled out. The font, you see, was of the sort in which a capital O looks very much like [...]
Of course, then there’s the argument that the masses don’t adequately inform themselves of the issues and therefore shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Alexander Hamilton would agree with that one. I’m not arguing in favor of such a stance (nor am I claiming that’s what happened yesterday), but it did strike me as I sat [...]
After the colonies won their independence from Great Britain and went about the business of becoming the United States, our founding fathers began to hash through a number of New Country issues: who would be a citizen in this democracy? who would be able to own land? who would vote? And many of these questions [...]