Esther Moon: Real community challenges our assumptions about the value of choice and the role of ideals.

Brian Brown: You have to love a place–not an idealized Place–before you can fix it.

James Banks: Joe Carter vs. Front Porch Republic…we need to consider “community” as particular places, not as an ideology.

You can’t have the second without the first. Not because it’s an inevitable evil, but because without politics there can be no community.

Miriel M. Thomas Earlier this month, the Supreme Court decided Snyder v. Phelps, a case involving the Westboro Baptist Church’s demonstrations in conjunction with the funeral of a Marine killed in the line of duty in Iraq. Eight to one, the Court ruled that the First Amendment immunizes Westboro from tort liability for the emotional [...]