“There is war, but always elsewhere,” poet Jillian Weise says of reading The Economist. Americans have been watching […]
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White men — what are they thinking? What do they think about what they think? Is it good to write thinkpieces on thinking about how white men think?
It’s hard to believe we’re now so far from the “post-feminist” moment of the 1990s and early 2000s. We find ourselves in a very different place today.
Like The Andy Griffith Show, the near total absence of black characters on The Beverly Hillbillies made the show’s southernness more viable to its millions of viewers. It taught them that erasing was easier than confronting the weighty problem of white southern racism.
Sometimes, you have a dream whose metaphorical meaning is so thuddingly obvious it almost seems too much. The […]
This has certainly been a supremely exhausting week, following what seems to be an endless series of bad […]
One of the few (very few) pleasures of having cable and paying out an obscene amount of money […]
Joe Biden once famously said that Will and Grace “did more to educate the American public [about gay […]