“Everyone loves to talk about blackness, a fascinating thing. But bring up whiteness and fewer people want to talk about it”
Everyone loves to talk about blackness, a fascinating thing. But bring up whiteness and...
Category Archives: America
“It’s never as simple and humdrum as being for or against the Clintons”
…it’s different from politics as usual. It’s politics as a peculiar form of psychological...
“The secular humanist liberation movement…should not encourage nonbelievers to turn away from their own intellectual heritage…”
As nonbelievers tangle with traditional Christians over same-sex marriage and navigate conflicts between conservative...
“…modern secular humanism is…a species of 21st-century liberalism, and many of its adherents have absorbed the modern liberal tendency to shy away from ideology in favor of a message of nonjudgmental inclusion”
Atheism, like any ideological position, has political and moral consequences. As nonbelievers become a...
“The president’s views on Israel were forged during his time in Chicago, when he became friendly with a group of prominent Jewish Democrats…”
The president’s views on Israel were forged during his time in Chicago, when he...
“Now, both Mrs. Clinton and the news media have changed. She seems less a presidential candidate than a historical figure…”
Mrs. Clinton’s relationship with the political press has never been warm. She started the...
“Such street culture is simply the black urban version of one of America’s most iconic traditions: the Wild West”
In all inner-city neighborhoods, however, there is a problem minority that varies between about...
“’New York feels like it’s all about ‘making it’, L.A. feels like it’s all about making things'”
No wonder a new generation of restless New Yorkers is starting to heed the...
“Clearly, racism trumps anti-Semitism in the hearts and minds of most Americans”
Clearly, racism trumps anti-Semitism in the hearts and minds of most Americans. A casual...
“…throughout the 1930s and ’40s, corporate leaders marketed a new ideology that combined elements of Christianity with an anti-federal libertarianism”
…throughout the 1930s and ’40s, corporate leaders marketed a new ideology that combined elements...