At the age of twenty-one, Tiger Woods won the Masters Tournament, and never had the African American community been so excited about golf. Nike built its advertising campaign around this exuberance...
Matthew 25:40 Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Last week, the Report by Commission of Investigation into...
The 00s were a decade fraught with fear. They began with the millennium bug and ended with the growing debacle in Afghanistan. Like a downbeat Hollywood franchise played out over countless movies,...
This is the first in Sarah Jaffe's series, Rethinking Work. See her introduction for more information. When rethinking work and what we consider work, many jobs that come to mind. Yet few are as...
I believe that when we all wistfully relate that “I wish I had a twin brother/sister,” what we really mean is “I bet I would get along just great with myself.” Or, at least, that’s what I...
Some shapes are beautiful and some are not. It is pretty subjective, I think, save for the regular geometrical shapes. A square sucks no matter what. Clouds, on the other hand, are the best example...
"Precious," based on the novel Push by Sapphire, tells the tale of Claireece "Precious" Jones, an illiterate, dark skinned, fat, Black teenager who is a survivor of physical, emotional and sexual...
Professor Homa Katouzian is an specialist on Iran, teaching at the Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford. Trained as an economist, Dr. Katouzian has a broad range of interests...
Despite the advances of modern science, we live in a world that remains captivated by the occult. We have put a man on the moon, cured many diseases that were once deadly, and live in a time of such...
Award shows pull in viewers with “shocking” stunts on a rolling basis and the American Music Awards is no exception. On Sunday, former American Idol contestant Adam Lambert took the stage in all...
