I feel like everything I’ve been working on is suddenly coming together with a new clarity. On March 18 NPR ran an excellent interview with Tom Burrell, who worked in the advertising industry for 40 years and just published a book called Brainwashed: Challenging the Myth of Black Inferiority. I find Burrell’s story to be [...]
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Mike Rowe Waxes Philosophical Over a ‘Dirty Job’
Wow, I need to start putting up some shorter posts, or I’m never going to get through the couple dozen draft posts that have accumulated on this blog! Clearly I haven’t stuck to my new year’s resolution of staying under 600 words. Whoops! With that in mind, I’ll keep this very brief. Back in December [...]
The Human Mystique
I have a feeling that when I’m older and reflecting on my experience as a young man, there will be a vital point in the story when I exclaim, “And then I found The Feminine Mystique!” It’s bewildering to consider that the work — which launched the modern feminist movement almost 20 years before I [...]
