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People who are given whatever they want soon develop a sense of entitlement and rapidly lose their sense of proportion.
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies... →
If history starts as a guest list, it has a tendency to end like the memory of a drunken party: misheard, blurred, fragmentary.
Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why... →
The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to... →
Textbooks are no longer given to schoolchildren; they're too expensive. So they're given to the teachers, who probably need them more.
There is nothing that 'Sesame Street' can't teach you, if you let it.
In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on... →
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the economic... →
'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids... →
History is prone to mistakes in identity, and facts are not always solid things.
History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those whose presence... →
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class... →
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