Kansas has received the most news coverage for the catastrophic shortfall of revenues its massive tax cuts (promulgated by the state’s conservative governor when he took office three years ago) have created.  At first, the crisis seemed to be limited to that one state, which would have been bad enough, as Kansas public schools were […]

The idea of religious liberty means different things to different people.  That fact could not be clearer in comparing the laws of the United States and France on the subject.  Both countries profess to be democracies, and both have constitutions that developed from the Age of Enlightenment, when freedoms of all sorts, but most certainly […]

Cornel West, the fiery human rights advocate, enlivened an already enthusiastic audience last Saturday in a commemoration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Cross-Cultural Center at UC Davis.  He made his remarks at the Mondavi Center.  Many in the late arriving audience (the address was delayed for 30 minutes) came from a […]