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Eric Weltman

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Dec 10, 2017
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Empathy and Our Nation’s Future

By 2050, the United States will be majority nonwhite. Latinos, blacks, Asians, and other “minorities” will constitute approximately 54 percent of our population, according to Census projections. We…
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Eric Weltman,
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August 10, 2010
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Defending Society

“Solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short” is how Thomas Hobbes described life in the absence of society. His conclusion, 350 years ago, that society is necessary to maintain…
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Eric Weltman,
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June 7, 2010
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Rethinking Independent Voters

The power of independent voters is being heralded in the wake of the Massachusetts Senate race. The winner, Scott Brown, a Republican, went so far as to declare…
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Paul Lachelier &
Eric Weltman,
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February 11, 2010
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