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Leon Galis

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Is the Second Amendment Really the Foundation of All Our Liberties?

On any reasonable understanding, the "insurrectionist" theory of the Second Amendment is either senseless or uncontroversial.

The Education Debate We Should Be Having (in Decatur-Avondale Estates Patch)

Public school advocates need to make a case for public schools as an indivisible public benefit accruing to all of us, whether or not we have children in school.

In rural Georgia, "school choice" is just a cruel joke (in Decatur-Avondale Estates Patch)

The state is subsidizing private schools to the tune of tens of millions of dollars while shutting down a $2.6 million program of “sparsity” grants to rural public schools.

Georgia's "parent trigger" shell game (in Decatur-Avondale Estates Patch)

HB 123, the Parent and Teacher Empowerment Act, is just another faddish distraction from what really turns schools around: intelligence and commitment by all concerned.

Schools

Protect our most vulnerable population without getting lost in the Second Amendment weeds

We should be undertaking a massive national effort to make school buildings as nearly impenetrable as possible by armed intruders. Everything else is waste motion.

An owner's guide to the Constitutional right to bear arms (in Decatur-Avondale Estates Patch)

Our Second Amendment rights aren't what state legislatures, the National Rifle Association and Fox News talking heads say they are. They're what the United States Supreme Court said they are.

Does Internet Anonymity Scramble Our Brains?

The widespread practice of anonymous posting on the Web may be degrading our offline interactions in the public square.

The Incoherence of Ayn Rand's Libertarianism (in Decatur-Avondale Estates Patch)

A classic problem in decision theory suggests that voluntary cooperation among Randian rational satisfaction maximizers, her libertarian ideal, is precluded by rationality itself.

Personhood and Fetal Rights (in Decatur-Avondale Estates Patch)

Extending legal personhood to the unborn is too blunt an instrument to capture adequately our considered moral beliefs about abortion.

Education

Charter Schools Amendment: Constitutional Litter (in Athens Patch)

Amendment 1 will realize neither its supporters' fondest hopes nor its opponents' worst fears.