White Kids Can’t Read Either
- Education, Culture, Family, Literature
- May 6, 2022
One of my favorite current sources of unintentional humor, NPR, provided another comedy jewel the other day.
It was an interview with Maia Kobabe, the author of Gender Queer: A Memoir, a book NPR describes as a “graphic …
READ MORERecently, a male friend who has asked me out several times sent me a Facebook message about psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb’s best-selling book Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough. He thought I might find it interesting, …
READ MOREThe other week British Olympian Laura Kenny announced that she was expecting another child.
The announcement in the BBC sports section caught my eye for two reasons: the first that this child was being welcomed into a married, two-parent …
READ MORENew Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern certainly hasn’t been on my list of favorite people for the last several years, largely due to her draconian COVID policies on masks, vaccines, and quarantines, and her “government knows best” attitude. But I …
READ MOREAmerica is racist. This lesson is drummed into us through our schools and the mainstream media.
A century ago, much of the racism in America was aimed at blacks. Bigots condemned them as shiftless, lazy, and violent. These days, many …
READ MORE…READ MOREEmily Fields’ three kids—a boy, age four, and two girls, ages 6 and 8—were playing outside. The Fields live in the quiet town of Pearisburg in rural western Virginia. It was there, on a May afternoon in