
On the Erasure of Whiteness in Responses to Convicted Pedophile Jan Joosten, a White Man
In her now classic paper titled White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo writes about the many ways…
Read MoreIn her now classic paper titled White Fragility, Robin DiAngelo writes about the many ways…
Read MoreIn her excellent book Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny, the philosopher Kate Manne coined…
Read MoreHow different might this election cycle have been had more voters been willing to be curious about, understand, accept, or even embrace a pluralist nation, rather than panic in the face of the other?
Read MoreI had met Jack at an Association of Jewish Studies conference while I was in my first year as a professor and, after a brief talk, he invited me to apply for the position at Brown.
Read MoreThe irony is that the hire seems a mirror-image mimicking of what conservatives typically allege of the university hiring process: that only liberals/radicals, regardless of scholarly accomplishment, need apply.
Read MoreThe religious right inaccurately portrays study to give them a weapon in the marriage wars.
Read MoreA pair of evangelical professors have written a point-by-point refutation of the religious right’s favorite historian. The question remains: does it matter?
Read MoreAP’s Kathy Matheson 1, conservative blogger Terry Mattingly 0.
Read MoreA scholar of Pentecostalism tells how an academic conference became a culture war battleground, and what she plans to do about it.
Read MoreQuite a bit, as it turns out. Whether as public figures or educators, academics can, for example, help refute the work of high profile Islamophobes whose expertise lies outside of Islam.
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