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What a Flag Has to Do with Justice

By Eric Thomas Weber

8 Jul 2015

Flags — Confederate Cemetery Brices Cross Roads National Battlefield Baldwyn (MS) June 2013 by Ron Cogswell (via Flickr CC BY 2.0)

Dr. Eric Thomas Weber is associate professor of Public Policy Leadership at the University of Mississippi and author of Democracy and Leadership (2013), the forthcoming Uniting Mississippi (September 2015), and of A Culture of Justice, in progress. He is representing only his own point of view. Follow him on Twitter @erictweber or check out his website.

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