Though the language of cliche has switched from the middle-class respectability of the 1950s to our current obsessions with inclusion and concern for the marginalized, the practice of washing our clean linen in public endures in our culture.
Author: David Bromwich, The Nation
Russia, Ukraine and NYT’s Shameless Conjectures
The paper of record’s coverage of the crisis has been a series of shameless provocative conjectures posing as facts.
The Protest Movement and the Protest Government
No one acquainted with right-wing media can doubt that anger over the 2020 riots-in Portland, Seattle, Kenosha, Philadelphia, and elsewhere-fed the wildness of the January 6 riot.
Averting Climate Change Catastrophe Will Be Expensive
Not to mention tedious and not much fun. And that’s the good news.
The Use and Disadvantage of Doctrine in the Classroom
What does the debate over critical race theory in schools tell us about the place of doctrine in education?