Tobias Winright

As a theological ethicist who also used to work in law enforcement, I feel obligated to comment on the latest incident involving police using pepper spray on Occupy Wall Street protesters. Garance Franke-Ruta over at The Atlantic provides, I think, a fair account of this, including most recently...

While running during lunch hour on campus the first day of classes this semester, I saw a student wearing a t-shirt with "Billi-what?" on the front. Billikens were all the rage in the US at the beginning of the twentieth century. Although there continues to be some mystery as to...

There were two state-sanctioned executions in the United States on September 21, 2011. In Georgia, Troy Anthony Davis, an African American man, was put to death for the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark MacPhail. In Texas, Lawrence Brewer, a white supremacist, was executed for his participation in the...