“…the belief now is that systemic racism is a national cancer that was excised long ago…”
It’s not that anyone denies that institutional racism once existed. But the belief now...
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“Superhero team-building is a venerable comic-book practice, one that flourished in the ’60s and ’70s…more or less contemporaneously with the first voyages of the Starship Enterprise”
Nothing in popular culture, or in consumer capitalism, is ever really new. Superhero team-building...
“There is an idealistic and a cynical reason for automatic equivalence in political reporting”
There is an idealistic and a cynical reason for automatic equivalence in political reporting....
“This is the end result of redefining racism to mean malice in one’s heart”
Trump…seems to understand that charges of racism are essentially toothless, because the bar of...
“The history of the ‘Black-Jewish alliance’ is, of course, much more complicated than the narrative evoked by the march in Selma, and its ambiguities provide some helpful context for the current controversy”
Tensions between Jewish liberals and black radicals are, of course, not new. It was...
“There’s nothing the media hates more than to admit that a political race is over before it even began”
There’s nothing the media hates more than to admit that a political race is...
“While American Jewish leaders will use the platform to distance themselves from Black Lives Matter, the movement provides a lesson for how we will eventually reconcile our commitments and rescue our moral integrity”
While American Jewish leaders will use the platform to distance themselves from Black Lives...
“Trump flouts the epistemological basis of contemporary political discourse…”
The strange alliance that has emerged between even Trump-supporting Republican elites and a critical...
“’Racism’ spent the first half of the 20th century in competition with another word, ‘racialism’, though neither featured prominently in our national conversation”
The first cited use of “racism” in The Oxford English Dictionary comes from 1902,...
“…mix of youthful safety and adult immaturity may be a feature of life in a society increasingly shaped by the internet’s virtual realities”
Since the 1990s, we’ve seen two broad social changes that few observers would have...