Read the postbourgie.com (really?) post. The writer scoffs at the notion that public disapproval can do anything to affect expressions of racism. As a historian of human rights issues, I'm pretty confident about saying that elite condemnation of mass racism quells it. (Let me know if you want the footnotes.)

You might want to ask teenagers if they're cool with it. I did — I teach 125 of them. Sophomores and Seniors. To a person — EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THEM — thought that calling out these kids was straight up correct. They said they were sick and tired of having people condescend to them, and that, if it took going…

t's not gonna happen (secession), of course. But it's interesting to think about spinning off Texas into separate country in big-picture geopolitical way. Texas has the size and demographics of a large Middle Eastern country. It's also mostly a hydrocarbon-economy dependent on bringing in foreign guest workers do the…

How does one laugh and point at racist idiots when they are too gutless, and the MTA too craven to require them to, POST THEIR NAMES. There is nothing in the common law, nor the Constitution, that guarantees the right to free ANONYMOUS speech; that's an interpretation that Americans gave to a British tradition that…

Two paint-spraying thumbs pushed down (on the spray paint cans, of course.) When you seek to defame, expect to be defaced. One hideous example of speech begets another. 'Twere best to practice right speech all along. But Buddhism isn't one of the religions in play, here.

great comment

I wish for you two things: that your husband's disability case is resolved with speedily and well; and that the both of you had the ability to make Romney spend three straight weeks with you, while you talked to him. The world needs to hear from you.

It's 10:13 p.m. in New York as I write this, which I shouldn't be doing because I have a)25 AP World History quizzes on different kinds of historical evidence to grade, b)some fine-tuning to do on tomorrow's role-playing lesson where students recreate the conditions of the pin factory described on the first page of…

Ouroborous

This reads very well; Eric; glad that you've written what you have. The line about Coach Mac's "surprise" was milk-snort funny. Not long after leaving the place a quarter century ago — I dropped out after two years — I wrote an essay called "Harvard: the Worst Educational Institution in the Americas." Because it…

Ah, give Banks a break. She's insecure about her lack of formal education; it ain't the most ingratiating quality in the world but it isn't like she's murdering anyone. I'm a Harvard alum and there are times when I dress myself up real nice, as if I were actually good looking, or something. We all aspire to be a…

Kevin, it sounds like YOU want to mate with Willard because of his wealth and status, and I think that's fine even if you and all of your friends and colleagues do not. But please avoid making summative statements about evolutionary trends in homo sapien mate selection until, say, you learn something — anything —…

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