“The charting system was predicated on a segregated market”
Rock and roll is usually explained as rhythm-and-blues music—that is, music performed by black...
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“When Republicans have total control of the government, they will bear the responsibility for its failures”
Throughout the Obama administration, the G.O.P. has had the mind-set of an opposition party,...
“The state of our politics also explains why none of the revelations, outrages or gaffes seemed to dent Mr. Trump’s popularity”
When I wrote in August 2015 that Mr. Trump was a cartoon version of...
“By denying known and provable facts…or by rejecting facts that are not publicly known…, Mr. Trump exercises his ever-growing power over the public sphere”
If there is one trait that Mr. Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of...
“Contrary to our popular assumptions about the intent and effect of both the New Deal and the G.I. Bill, they were not intended to, nor did they, provide all poor Americans with equal economic opportunity”
Up through at least the middle of the twentieth century, the government of the...
“A post-identity liberal press would begin educating itself about parts of the country that have been ignored, and about what matters there, especially religion”
We need a post-identity liberalism, and it should draw from the past successes of...
“Imprisoning people is one of the weightiest things that government does, yet outsourcing imprisonment means that treatment of inmates is shaped by bottom-line considerations”
Imprisoning people is one of the weightiest things that government does, yet outsourcing imprisonment...
“The uneasy way we discuss ghettos and gentrification says something about our discomfort with the real-estate market…”
The uneasy way we discuss ghettos and gentrification says something about our discomfort with...
“…the top issue that drove Trump’s voters to the polls was…was immigration, an issue on which we’ve abandoned serious debate…”
The same white working-class voters who re-elected Obama four years ago did not cast...
“The moral energy surrounding identity has, of course, had many good effects…but the fixation on diversity in our schools and in the press has produced a generation of liberals and progressives narcissistically unaware of conditions outside their self-defined groups, and indifferent to the task of reaching out to Americans in every walk of life”
The moral energy surrounding identity has, of course, had many good effects. Affirmative action...