Daily Archives: May 21, 2016

Gopnik’s Trump Trauma

In The New Yorker, the current Most Popular piece is Adam Gopnik’s “The Dangerous Acceptance of Donald Trump”. Gopnik opens and closes his piece, I kid you not, with verse from Alexander Pope. (Can you say Cautionary Tale?) “Columnists and … Continue reading

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Diversity & Societal Distrust

Amidst their vast forest of stories about Hamilton, Trump, and transgendered bathrooms, the NYT has an op-ed by two sociologists titled “Don’t Blame Diversity for Distrust”. The authors, Maria Abascal & Delia Baldassarri, take issue with conventional interpretations of the … Continue reading

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