Jonathan Chait wrote this laughably unreflective and dim series of sentences in New York magazine: Political correctness is a style o...

Human Rights Must Always Trump '#NYPDLIVESMATTER' Two New York police officers were killed on Saturday. This is an unfortun...

Goodness. I am awed...and not in a good way. Last week, The Atlantic featured a story about how a cadre of "unconventional"...

The “controversy” about the wildly popular reality TV show Duck Dynasty is both laughable and sad for what it reveals about the woefu...

One of my favorite experiences at an academic conference was when a discussant did not tear into the panelists (and their submitted papers) ...

For the record, as with the previous accounts this is one more story of a pilot who was: doing  absolutely nothing wrong ; breaking no...

In my scenario, the initial riots begin spontaneously across affected urban areas, as SNAP (supplemental nutrition assistance program) and...

George Zimmerman is a contemptible human being. In court, Zimmerman apologized to Trayvon Martin's parents because their child ran int...

Once more, our political culture has proven itself to be sick. In a healthy democracy the social compact is respected. Political ideology is...

George Romero’s classic 1968 zombie film Night of the Living Dead begins with the famous warning that “they are coming to get you Barbra!” ...

Here is a great news item with which to start the new academic year. The Right-wing in America is anti-intellectual. We know this. The popu...

Cue up the violin for a sad, sad and familiar song: Conservatives are victims once more in the Age of Obama. In New York City's Bryant P...

CNN's Black in America: The Black Woman and Family , was all in all an interesting 2 hours of television. The Good 1. Seeing solidly mi...

In light of yesterday’s Victimology Blues post, this week’s Friday Five features expressions of victimology that tend to come from the rel...

Thank you for this passionate, intelligent reply, Sister Zora. I will respond to a few of your most relevant points, but I will address...

I like Gina McCauley, the creator of What About Our Daughters (WAOD) . She is smart, and she comes across as poised, even in the face of unj...