Month: September 2013

Postwar conservatives were united by anti-communism, but their anti-communism was directed more at the New Deal than the Communist Party. That’s the case Colleen Doody makes in “Detroit’s Cold War.” Doody uses post-World War II Detroit as a case study to examine the development of 20th century American conservatism. Doody, an associate professor at DePaul...

Americans have very few restrictions on what they can publish.  With copyright laws as an exception, we are guaranteed that “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” It appears, however, that Michigan legislators may need a refresher course on our constitutional rights. State Representative Ellen Lipton  introduced HB-4770 in...

Pope Francis made the internet explode—again. Last week, the Jesuit journal America published a series of interviews conducted between the pope and his fellow Jesuit Antonio Spadaro in August. From Buzzfeed to the New York Times, every form of media has had something to declare about the interview. The following passage is the most-quoted and...

Twitter is a revolutionary weapon. The Ben Ali and Mubarak regimes in North Africa found that out the hard way. American politicians, however, are either oblivious or willfully blind to this development. Sure, most politicians have Twitter accounts. But very few, if any, have used Twitter to its fullest capacity. That is, until January 2013,...