Whose Dreams?
In the run-up to the election, Jack Cashill framed a speculative argument that Bill Ayers wrote Barack Obama’s Dreams From My Father. Cashill first ventured his thesis in “Who wrote Dreams From My Father?” Cashill cited Obama’s sophomoric stabs at poetry from his days at Occidental. Obama’s sophomoric poetry doesn’t provide much [...]
On Race and Class In Harvard Square
As William A. Jacobson suggests at legal’in’sur’rec’tion, this confrontation appears to be less about race, and more about class.
After all, we are indeed talking about a “supremely educated” and elitist Harvard Professor (with a racist-oriented chip on his shoulder) versus an “educated but non-academic police sergeant.”
From Mark Krikorian at the corner comes this [...]
From yo-yoing to mau-mauing
Many of you have probably heard that Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who studies issues pertaining to race, was arrested earlier this week following a dispute with a police officer. Charges against Gates have been dropped, but according to the Washington Post, Gates views the matter as a modern lesson in racism. [...]
