“Art is always difficult, but it is especially difficult when it comes to telling other people’s stories”
Are we then to cry “appropriation” whenever a Westerner approaches a non-Western subject? Quite...
“The question is whether change—if and when it comes—will originate out of the effort to preserve tradition or to drag it into lockstep with politics”
Traditional Judaism believes that men and women occupy different roles in society because they...
“Britain’s pagan religions and the stories that form their liturgy never really disappeared…”
Britain’s pagan religions and the stories that form their liturgy never really disappeared, the...
“The popularity of West Coast-styled hoppy and bitter India Pale Ales does not follow the common assumption humans prefer sweet flavors and dislike bitter”
The popularity of West Coast-styled hoppy and bitter India Pale Ales does not follow...
“In the context of a divided electorate, highly polarized parties and non-stop combat in an unending string of elections to fill national and state offices, presidential contests are less likely to usher in dominance than to invite opposition”
The White House is a major prize, but in our system of checks and...
“The 19th-century antecedent that Trump evokes in his nativist appeals to white working- and middle-class Americans is not the populism of the People’s Party but rather that of the Know-Nothing Party of the 1850s…”
The 19th-century antecedent that Trump evokes in his nativist appeals to white working- and...
“Cruz has gone from the insufferable nemesis of Republican traditionalists to their last, best hope…”
Cruz has gone from the insufferable nemesis of Republican traditionalists to their last, best...
“Our first big failing was that television in particular handed Trump the microphone without adequately fact-checking him or rigorously examining his background, in a craven symbiosis that boosted audiences for both”
Those of us in the news media have sometimes blamed Donald Trump’s rise on...
“…unrealistic as Trump’s ideas are, they differ from those of his chief opponents only in degree, not in kind”
In 1980, the third-party Presidential candidate John Anderson succinctly summed up Ronald Reagan’s promise...
“…many of the Republicans in a faux swoon for the far-right loon don’t really want to see him fly all the way to the White House — or, for that matter, to the nomination”
…many of the Republicans in a faux swoon for the far-right loon don’t really...