If a person of color feels offended by something a well-meaning white person said and no one knows they’re offended, is it still a hate crime? This is the implicit question ...
For a long time I have intended always to carry a small notebook with me when I go to second-hand bookshops to take down a list of the most boring titles ever published. ...
The smoke has cleared in Baltimore for now, and one of my favorite American cities is just a little bit less than it used to be. I bear a lingering affection for Baltimore ...
Three thousand miles from the fighting in Syria I was sat with Pakistanis who definitely wouldn’t be giving up their lives here in London for Raqqa. They fit somewhere ...
The late Simon Leys, the great Sinologist and literary essayist, once wrote a little essay on the first lines of novels. He was inspired to do so by having picked up G. K. ...
No one who reads Seyyid Qutb's book Milestones could be in any doubt that the destruction of ancient monuments by ISIS or the Taliban is perfectly in keeping with Islamist ...
When did blacks become a bunch of old ladies clutching their pearls and fainting all over the place? "Owe my lowde," they say in their angora cardigans and blue-tinted ...
Next Tuesday marks the 100th anniversary of American movies as the premier pop cultural force on the planet. On March 3, 1915, director D.W. Griffith released The Birth of a ...
"Martin Luther toy becomes fastest selling Playmobil figurine of all time." Has anyone been keeping an eye on Germany lately? Because I think they"re getting even ...
What if most Holocaust victims were balancing their karma from ages before, when they were Roman soldiers putting Christians to death ... So said Charles Manson to his followers ...
One little phrase in Le Monde's report of an incident in Nice"in which a man aged 30 called Moussa Coulibaly attacked with a knife three soldiers guarding a Jewish community ...
Last week, in the wake of the grand jury's decision in Ferguson and the ensuing night of undocumented shoppers, I was planning to write the definitive essay on why the engineers ...
Numerous identity politics uproars, such as Ferguson, Trayvon, and Duke Lacrosse, have turned out to be humiliating fiascos for the national press when all the facts are finally ...
In July of 1967, after race riots gutted Newark and Detroit, requiring troops to put them down, LBJ appointed a commission to investigate what happened, and why. The Kerner ...
This month marks 50 years since Mario Savio stood atop a police car at UC Berkeley and gave an impassioned speech to throngs of young pampered radicals that launched what is now ...
I noticed a fair few mentions of the phrase "death penalty" from UK news outlets last fortnight; little surprise, given that the antepenultimate Wednesday marked the ...
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