Category Archives: Diversity & Multiculturalism

Amartya Sen: Fear, Fact, and Freedom

On September 22, 1994, the venerable New York Review of Books published economist Amartya Sen’s essay “Population: Delusion and Reality,” his response to the long history of worries about over-population, from Malthus to Paul Ehrlich (The Population Bomb) to Garrett … Continue reading

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Think Like a Man

“There is no truer statement: men are simple.”  So begins the first chapter of Steve Harvey’s Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man.  Men are driven by “who they are, what they do, and how much they make,” according to … Continue reading

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Dick Gregory: Comedy and Social Change

Besides being one of the funniest men in the history of American comedy, DICK GREGORY (1932-2017) has been a groundbreaking black writer and an activist in Civil Rights, in politics, and in food and health issues.  An activist vegetarian, he … Continue reading

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