Commentary List

The list below creates easier access to commentaries and a compact overview of them.  They are coded to approximate their major content: C=Culture, S=Society, P=Politics, and arranged into these rough categories— though these almost always overlap, something I have also tried to indicate.  Several of these pieces are listed elsewhere on this site, especially on the Teaching Diversity main page.

Though access is less easy, you may also read commentaries by clicking on the “Reviews & Commentary” category to get the first few lines of a commentary and a Read More link.  Here reviews are arranged in newest-to-oldest order.

—Links go live when material becomes available—

• Bob Dylan’s newest medal—C
• Come on, Cubs, play small ball—C
• Sterling Plumpp salutes Von Freeman.—C
• Thomas Hart Benton’s “The Race”—C
• Barbie’s New Bods—C
• A Response to One of Those Lists—C
• Diversity USA—C/S
• A second look at Fox News—P
• Come on, people: Vote smart!—P
• Takers, Makers, and the Fiscal Cliff. Read—P
• Red state, Blue state, Civil War. Read—P/C
• 10 reasons Muslims can’t be good Americans. Read—P/C
• Graphic Inequality—S
• Chris Rock: Racism almost over?—S
• Louis C.K. on Race: So I guess we’re even?—S
• Turning a Corner on Racism—S
• Grow up and honor those who couldn’t (Sandy Hook)—S/C
• “Race aside…” and the Limits of American Law (Trayvon Martin)—S/P
• We Are Everywhere: Voices of Rhodesian Guerillas—S
• “The Dream of the American Male“—S