Commentary If I have read or heard it once, I have read or heard it a few thousand times: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.” Other than “freedom,” no single word describes more accurately than the word “equality” what it means to be an American. For decades, our…

Commentary Throughout the history of modern nations, most fair-minded people have agreed that equal treatment under the law is a categorical imperative for a just society. In the traditional Anglo-American justice system, it’s regarded as cruel and unusual to impose widely different sanctions for similar offenses. For several decades after the American Civil War, ongoing…