Posts under ‘society’

Tom Burrell On His Book ‘Brainwashed’

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 [...]

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 [...]

How a Drill-Crazy Dentist Is Rewriting Your Kid’s History Book

In the New York Times Sunday Magazine published on February 11, an article by Russel Shorto called “How Christian Were the Founders?” looked into recent efforts by the Texas school board to inject into history and civics curriculum the idea that America was founded officially as a Christian nation. Their other aim is to wipe [...]

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 [...]