Justice is Personal

When did the topic of justice become important to you?” Gideon Strauss posed that question to two dozen people crammed into our living room one fall evening in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania. Some of us were there because we knew Gideon’s remarkable personal story—growing up Afrikaner in the last years of apartheid South Africa, becoming deeply involved in that country’s post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Others were interested in his work with the Center for Public Justice, an innovative think tank in Washington, DC. From my eleven-year-old daughter—perched on her mother’s lap…