Sinners and Strivers

“It’s illegal to yell ‘FIRE’ in a crowded theater, right?” “It is” “Well, I’ve whispered racism in a post-racial world” It is very p...

Steinbeck considers East of Eden his “other big book” in an obvious reference to his other masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath. He could be ...

When the 2008 financial crisis struck, Noam Chomsky, influential leftist intellectual extraordinaire (and arguably a dying breed), recom...

The Oxford English Dictionary of Philosophy seems to allude to the fact that the world of philosophy, for the most part, doesn’t really b...

In college I wrote my capstone course’s final paper on Angela Carter’s Night at the Circus because I was enthralled by the idea of Magic...

“People are trapped in History and History is trapped in them” Baldwin’s series of essays in Notes of a Native Son are both bold and b...

Perhaps the essence of white guilt can be summed up by one’s reaction to this novel or one's inability to fully grasp what it means. ...