

Much has been written about privilege in academic settings over the past few decades. There’s the privilege of wealth, and the advantages wealth confers if a baby is lucky enough ...

The Prime Minister’s Speech
It was one of the best movies of the year in 2010, and it was about — of all things — a speech. But not just any speech. It was ...

Southern Like Us
When I told my friends in New Jersey nearly ten years ago that I was packing my bags and heading south, they thought I’d lost my mind. Why, they wondered, ...

Coach Dean Smith, R.I.P.
He was one of the greatest basketball coaches of all time. But he was more than a coach to the hundreds of young men he guided while at the helm ...

The War on Small Business
Few Americans know his name — not even most staffers or reporters on Capitol Hill. But hundreds of thousands of small-business owners are afraid the government agency he works at ...

Why We Line Up for American Sniper
What made the ending of America’s top-grossing movie of the past two weeks so extraordinary was what happened not during the movie but after it. Anyone who’s seen it will ...

Cops’ Lives Matter
Cops across the country are mad. Mad as hell. Mad because some of America’s leaders have reinforced for months the dreadful lie that black people in America should fear the ...

Disenfranchising the American Dream
Dawn Lafreeda began working at Denny’s when she was 16, making her way up from hostess to waitress. In 1984, at the age of 23, she bought her first store. She ...

And Justice for None in Ferguson
In what’s perhaps the best book written on the subject of race, intolerance, and mob justice, Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird homes in on the trial of a black man, Tom ...

Radical Islam: The Monster in the Room
It’s not the elephant in the room — it’s the monster in the room. Radical Islam is the monster, and it is on the march in the Middle East. And ...