Let鈥檚 be grateful that Ron DeSantis devotes so much of his time raging over drag queens and bragging how he punished Disney for disagreeing with him. An obsessive pursuit of 鈥渨oke鈥� has kept the Florida governor and apparent presidential candidate from mucking around serious matters. But, ...
I suppose 鈥渨oke鈥� is now a dirty word.For the better part of a century, the word, 鈥渨oke,鈥� hadn鈥檛 harmed anybody.It had long been a bit of African American vernacular which meant alert, or aware of racial and social injustices.That鈥檚 all.Somehow, folks on the political right, have ...
Over the last 21 centuries, there have been more than 260 popes. Some have lasted fewer than 20 days on the job, a couple were just in their 20s when they ascended to the Vatican鈥檚 top job, and one particularly ill-tempered pope so detested cats that he ordered them to be killed, unwittingly ...
Shakespeare has long been dismissed, with others in the Western canon, as a dead white male. Now, there鈥檚 another, worse charge against the bard 鈥� he created the concept of whiteness.Yes, instead of standing in the line of literary giants such as Dante, Chaucer, and Goethe, Shakespeare is ...
Last weekend, Mike Pence unleashed his anger at Donald Trump.鈥淗istory will hold Donald Trump accountable for Jan. 6,鈥� Pence declared at the Gridiron Dinner, a normally jovial event for prominent journalists. 鈥淢ake no mistake about it: What happened that day was a disgrace, and it mocks ...
