Saturday, March 31, 2012. Toni Morrison on the Origins of American Racism. In her 2008 novel A Mercy. Toni Morrison imagines a frontier Virginia of the late 1600s, a century before the American Revolution. She has found in this time and place valuable insights into the relationship between slavery and race, a relationship that is taken for granted but that is after all contingent.

Tuesday, March 19, 2013. Lawrence Krauss, David Alpert, Jim Holt, Freeman Dyson. Philosophy, Physics and the Great Kerfuffle. In the New York Times. An excellent little book by the science writer Jim Holt.

Commentary on politics, foreign policy and current affairs from a liberal Democratic perspective. Saturday, December 15, 2012. Civil rights for gay people! What were we thinking? Things to immigrants instead of bad things. This show of boldness paid off handsomely for the Democratic Party. A Democratic coalition based in identity politics shows every sign of being able to beat a Republican Party with a single constituency. Wednesday, May 9, 2012.

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