Clive Bibby: How can all us common folk help with the reset!

Here’s a thought!

If those of us who normally just make up the numbers all wondered what we could collectively do to change this country from being a “basket case in the making” into one that leads the world as a truly egalitarian society - one built on a common desire to share the fruits of our labours and the natural resources that are an important part of reaching that utopian dream.

Point of Order: How a line from Martin Luther King might be helpful, if you are perplexed by what the parties are promising

A famous speech by Martin Luther King contained advice which could serve as a useful guide for voters perplexed by the plethora of party policies, pledges and promises in the runup to the general election.

Point of Order was reminded of the speech and its pertinence to the big issues dividing left and right when we re-visited an article by Emeritus Professor Jerry Coyne headed Do we really want a color-blind society?

Richard Epstein: The Dream Derailed

Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his “I have a dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of over 200,000 people. The crowd had gathered to protest the dangerous state into which race relations had fallen in the summer of 1963. King’s memorable speech was part of “the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,” and its solemn cadences ring as powerfully today they did 50 years ago. No one who heard it could forget its immensely powerful assault on segregation, the demise of which no respectable person—northerner or southerner—mourns today. No one should forget that King’s speech was a major catalyst in moving a still reluctant nation to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.