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John Hope Franklin, the famed black historian at Duke University, once told the incoming freshmen, “The new America in the 21st century will be primarily non-white, a place George Washington would not recognize.” In his June 1998 commencement address at Portland State, President Clinton affirmed it: “In a little more than 50 years, there will [...]
Filed under: Culture, Ideas, Immigration
A Toronto news site reports that at least one Hollywood A-lister wants to bring Jane Jacobs — the subject of a recently posted TAC symposium — to the silver screen. Marisa Tomei is fine with playing a scoop-hungry New York Times reporter in The Ides of March, George Clooney’s drama of cutthroat presidential campaigning. The [...]
NPR reports that an increasing number of news sites — in the interest of reducing trolls and personal attacks — are requiring commenters to disclose their real names. How do they verify that a person is using their offline identity? By requiring them to login via leading social network Facebook. As one Los Angeles Times [...]
Filed under: Culture, Technology
Since the anti-agribusiness movement hit full stride with the release of the “Food, Inc.” documentary in 2008, corporate farming has found itself back on its heels. But they’ve now launched a counter-assault, with support from their allies at the USDA and agricultural science departments. The U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance (USFRA), newly formed in 2010, [...]
I understand that _____ _____ has been in the news recently, and if there is one person in the world that I am sick of hearing about it is _____ _____. I know in the past that I have comment on the doings of _____ _____, but no more. (S)he and his/her family are the [...]
For several weeks now, what one critic has called “the anti-God squad” has been at work attacking Michelle Bachmann, Rick Perry, and other presidential candidates who publically display their Christian values. A torrent of abuse from the New Yorker, New York Times, and Washington Post has caused even the moderate Times columnist Ross Douthat (August [...]
I share Dan’s revulsion at crowd’s ghoulish reaction to Rick Perry’s record of executions at Wednesday’s debate, but what I find most interesting is the way Perry elided Williams’ question: WILLIAMS: Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent? PERRY: No, sir. I’ve never struggled with [...]
I have a feeling that Eric Loomis had his tongue lodged in his cheek while exhorting his fellow liberals to root for the Oregon Ducks in college football, because, well, it’s the right thing to do. It reeks of a sort of smug liberal condescension that I assumed only still existed in Ann Coulter’s imagination: [...]
Filed under: Culture
The women’s magazine Elle now covers the conservative movement. The longtime purveyor of fashion dispatches and essential beauty tips earlier this month presented a glamorous spread profiling a “new generation of conservative women […] stepping forward to dis feminists and cheer low taxes, guns, and motherhood.” The article maintained a tone of motherly condescension throughout [...]
Filed under: Conservatism, Culture
The New York Times carried a report on the UK riots, “London Riots Put Spotlight on Troubled, Unemployed Youths in Britain,” which included an interview with one of the “rioters,” Louis James, 19, who lives in a government-subsidized apartment in northern London and received $125 jobless benefits every two weeks. Poor Louis “never had a proper [...]