by Miguel A. De La Torre | Mar 2, 2010 | Opinion
The 1950s television star Desi Arnaz – best known as Ricky Ricardo in the sitcom “I Love Lucy” – had a sign posted on his dressing room door: “English is broken here.” For those of us who are Latinos and Latinas, this spoken, broken English...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 26, 2010 | Opinion
Editor’s note: EthicsDaily.com asked Miguel de la Torre, editor of the new Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Religion, to offer readers his perspective on why the journal is necessary. Religion scholars of color have an epistemological privilege concerning reality...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 19, 2010 | Opinion
Women were raped. Children were disemboweled. Men fell prey to the invaders’ swords. Within a generation, the lives and culture of the indigenous people of the Caribbean came to a bloody end. Avarice for gold and glory took its course and decimated the...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Jan 6, 2010 | Opinion
In April 2007, New York Times columnist David Brooks interviewed a presidential hopeful named Barack Obama. At one point, Brooks asked if Obama ever read the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr. “I love him. He’s one of my favorite philosophers,” was the...
by Miguel A. De La Torre | Dec 10, 2009 | Opinion
On Dec. 1, President Obama addressed the nation and made a case why more war was needed to bring the present war in Afghanistan to a close. Immediately, many ethicists charged that Obama’s proposal failed the “just war” litmus test. Just war is a...
