Rarely has a book been so lavishly applauded as Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me was in 2015. The book fetched gushing reviews, admiring interviews in prestigious media, won eminent literary prizes, and almost instantly landed on high school and college required reading lists all over the country. The book’s rapturous reception, as I
Have you ever thought about how Westerners’ tastes in pornography provide a critical lens into the “ethical consensuses of our liberal age”? If so, you are not alone. While I can’t say that such an analysis has ever crossed my mind, Alexandre Lefebvre is with you, examining in Liberalism as a Way of Life that
“The American Dream is not my story,” writes Jessica Hoppe. If anything, she writes in her new memoir First in the Family, the idea of the American dream has held her back. Hoppe describes her parents’ journey from Honduras and Ecuador to the United States, her family’s journey from dysfunction to stability and her own
In 1979, you could turn an alley corner in Nashville and find the Greatest Country Singer Ever living in his car surviving on alcohol and hillocks of cocaine. At under 100 pounds, George Jones would be trying to keep his diet of junk food down, talking to his two alter egos. “The Old Man” would
Lanon Baccam spoke on a panel of leaders ‘working to pass progressive reforms’ Lanon Baccam (lanonbaccam.com) Iowa congressional candidate Lanon Baccam has run his campaign as a moderate Democrat, but the former Obama administration bureaucrat touted his progressive ideals at a far-left conference in 2018. Baccam that year sat on a panel, “Rural ≠ White,”
Laura Gillen accepted thousands from Rockefeller Brothers Fund trustee and wife New York Democratic congressional candidate Laura Gillen (X) New York Democratic congressional hopeful Laura Gillen has centered her campaign around fighting campus anti-Semitism as violent anti-Israel protests take colleges by storm. She also accepted thousands of dollars in donations from David Rockefeller, whose nonprofit
Protesters made death threats and spat at one student government representative Anti-Israel protest, University of Michigan, May 2024 (Nic Antaya/Getty Images) Anti-Israel agitators mobbed, harassed, and threatened University of Michigan student government representatives who voted against funding a Hamas-associated university in the West Bank, videos show. The school is investigating the incident, and the student