“Bends Towards Justice” is an original podcast created and hosted by Duquesne University School of Law Professor Bruce Ledewitz. The show is produced in partnership with The August Wilson African American Cultural Center and funded by The Pittsburgh Foundation. The podcast asks a simple, but fundamental question—do we agree with Dr. King that the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice? The guests in this series provide a variety of perspectives on that question. The goal of the podcast is for the listener to understand what is at stake in this question and to come to a decision. Host Bruce Ledewitz is a professor of law at Duquesne University School of Law. He specializes in law and religion and law and the secular. He is the author of American Religious Democracy: Coming to Terms with the End of Secular Politics (Praeger 2007), Hallowed Secularism: Theory, Belief, and Practice (Palgrave Macmillan 2009) and Church, State, and the Crisis in American Secularism (Indiana University Press 2011). Ledewitz received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and his J.D. from Yale Law School. He also writes a column for the Pennsylvania Capital-Star https://www.penncapital-star.com/author/bruce-ledewitz/.
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Tracey McCants Lewis has made numerous contributions to Pittsburgh and the region. She has been a tenured professor of law at Duquesne University Scho...
Christian Miller’s work has been concerned for years with human moral character and specifically how we can improve our characters and why it is impor...
In 2017, Joseph Carter wrote an op-ed for the New York Times as a graduate student in philosophy at the University of Georgia entitled, “The Universe ...
Michael Shermer uses Dr. King's image of "the moral arc" to express his view that there is moral progress and that humanity has become better over tim...
Introduction to themes in Martin Luther King’s concept that the arc of the moral universe bends toward justice. Bruce Ledewitz is a professor of law a...