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  • Why a Gay Liberal from New York Came Out as Conservative

    Why a Gay Liberal from New York Came Out as Conservative0

    Earlier this month the New York Post shared the story of Chadwick Moore, a 33-year-old writer from New York. In September, Moore had been assigned to write a piece on the now-famous provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos for Out magazine. Moore knew he was covering a controversial (i.e. loathed) figure, but he decided he was going to write

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  • King Lear: A Tragedy on Relativism

    King Lear: A Tragedy on Relativism0

    Know thou this: that men Are as the time is.                 -Edmund (King Lear, Act V, Scene 3) One of the most rudimentary errors that one can make in reading a literary text is to see the words of a character as being synonymous with those of the author. Take, for example, these lines from

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  • 8 Reasons You Should NOT Read Great Books

    8 Reasons You Should NOT Read Great Books0

    Unless I miss my guess, almost every one of us have taken a quiz to see how many titles we’ve read from a list of 100 classic books. If you’re like me, you’ve probably read more than the average test taker, but your score still causes you to wince a bit and resolve to read

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  • Why is ‘Person of Color’ Good and ‘Colored Person’ Bad?

    Why is ‘Person of Color’ Good and ‘Colored Person’ Bad?0

    A person close to me recently used the phrase “people of color” at a work meeting. “Are we supposed to say that?” asked a gentleman in his 50s. A conversation ensued. After several minutes of discussion, the person who originally used the phrase said the group had gone off topic, but she insisted her choice

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  • College Illiteracy is Growing

    College Illiteracy is Growing1

    For a number of years, it was assumed that public education was swimming along, efficiently educating children of all ages. More recently, the products coming out of public schools have caused a troubling concern to leap into the minds of adults: are schools dumbing down the content they teach to students? That concern seems to

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  • ‘Sensitivity Readers’ Are Screening Content for Publishing Houses

    ‘Sensitivity Readers’ Are Screening Content for Publishing Houses0

    • February 17, 2017

    Via the Chicago Tribune: Before a book is published and released to the public, it’s passed through the hands (and eyes) of many people: an author’s friends and family, an agent and, of course, an editor. These days, though, a book may get an additional check from an unusual source: a sensitivity reader, a person

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