July 20, 2023
View from the Battlefield
Editorial Board
Thomas saw no need to disclose the gifts or recuse himself. This is corruption at the highest level of the judicial system.
I’ve really struggled over the years about how much time and energy to give to writing about Clarence Thomas. Some years ago, I reviewed a scathing…
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Commentary
Editorial Board
Why Black studies? Any serious student of U.S. history knows our country’s long and violent history when it comes to race.
Scholarship and intellectual communities are only viable if they are dynamic and contested spaces for critical thinking and debate. Black studies began in heated struggle. Here…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Refusing to negotiate better compensation and fair working conditions for actors and writers, major film and television studios are to blame for the work stoppages afflicting their industry.
Hollywood has come to a standstill this summer as actors join their writer colleagues on the picket line. The Screen Actors Guild – American Federation of…
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Guest Commentary
Guest Commentator
Let the Freedom Bomblets Ring!
A popular song of defiance that came soon after the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941 was “Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition.” Today,…
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