Opinion Tucker Sechrest | 29 Jul 2022 A "Rogue Court"?: Integrity and Majority Rule Recent criticism of the High Court fails to pinpoint the actual trouble.
Business Tucker Sechrest | 16 Jun 2022 "Woke Capitalism" What does it mean? How does it work? Why should you care?
Brian Flores, Equal Opportunity, and Affirmative Action Recent allegations of racial discrimination highlight the differences in programs of equality of opportunity and equality of outcome. 4 Feb 2022 | Tucker Sechrest
'Don't Look Up': Willful Ignorance of a Democracy in Crisis This cautionary tale refuses to play political football with skeptics and simply fast-forwards to the end. 4 Jan 2022 | Tucker Sechrest
Parents' Rights and Public Education How much authority should parents be granted in shaping public school curricula? 8 Nov 2021 | Tucker Sechrest
Individual Rights, Collective Interests, and Vaccine Mandates Is there any justifying the state's strong-arming and bullying in the name of its citizens' public health? 21 Oct 2021 | Tucker Sechrest
Revenge Porn, Public Interest, and Free Speech In what circumstances could revenge porn ever be considered protected speech? 29 Jun 2021 | Tucker Sechrest
"Politicians in Robes": Neutrality in the Supreme Court How can we maintain confidence in the Court given the politicization surrounding it? 27 May 2021 | Tucker Sechrest
A Stark Divide: On Critical Race Theory in the Classroom Why might race-based education be necessary for developing our youth into fully-fledged adults? 13 May 2021 | Tucker Sechrest
Justice for All?: William Kelly and Kyle Rittenhouse Should departments really be in the business of policing their officers' off-duty behavior? 26 Apr 2021 | Tucker Sechrest
Abusing Public Faith: Brooks, Gladwell, and Journalistic Ethics The harm caused by journalists shilling for brands threatens not only their credibility but the credibility of the news at large. 15 Apr 2021 | Tucker Sechrest
"Stand Back and Stand By": The Demands of Loyal Opposition What role and responsibilities does American democracy assume of the minority party? 5 Apr 2021 | Tucker Sechrest
More Than Words: Hate Crime Laws and the Atlanta Attack Deploying the vocabulary of hate crime legislation might be more important than prosecuting offenders. 22 Mar 2021 | Tucker Sechrest
Accountability, Negligence, and Bad Faith Calls for Senators Cruz and Hawley to resign are only growing louder, but of what wrong might they be guilty? 8 Jan 2021 | Tucker Sechrest
This for That: Trading Vaccinations for Stimulus Checks Should citizens refusing vaccination be denied a stimulus check? Is this proposal really any different from school immunizations? 11 Dec 2020 | Tucker Sechrest
Racial Health Disparities and Social Predispositions The ambiguity in the Surgeon General's remarks communicates a troubling message further complicated by the public position from which it was delivered. 17 Apr 2020 | Tucker Sechrest
Coronavirus Briefings: Virtue in Ignorance? Do news outlets have a responsibility to relay White House briefings in full or has analysis and commentary become essential to communicating the facts? 3 Apr 2020 | Tucker Sechrest
The Politicization of Disease The current pandemic is but another opportunity to observe the perennial conflict between private interest and public good. 25 Mar 2020 | Tucker Sechrest
Fighting Fire with Smoke: On CPAC's "Anti-Greta" The Washington Post's recent profile of the "Anti-Greta" raises concerns over journalistic ethics. Does giving space to fringe beliefs always run afoul of the duty to avoid false equivalence? 27 Feb 2020 | Tucker Sechrest
U-Haul's Anti-Smoking Workplace Wellness UHaul's new nicotine-free hiring policy masquerades as a wellness initiative, but is it merely discrimination by any other name? 16 Jan 2020 | Tucker Sechrest
The DOJ vs. NACAC: Autonomy and Paternalism in Higher Ed Recent reforms to college recruitment alter the traditional understanding of universities relationship to students. 29 Oct 2019 | Tucker Sechrest
The Hong Kong Protests and International Obligation As the object of a treaty between two sovereign nations, what responsibility do we have to the autonomy of Hong Kong? 28 Aug 2019 | Tucker Sechrest