Well, identity politics is everywhere.
In the 1970s colleges were under the reign of a very odd form of literary theory called deconstruction or post-structuralism.
But a married spouse at whatever income level is almost always going to improve the economy of a household over a lifetime, whether that spouse is adding the proceeds of a minimum-wage job or the inestimable value of being a stay-at-home parent while the other one works.
Well, the 80s was when it started in my view. That is when you got radical multiculturalism that hit.
The Democratic Party now is an extension of this poisonous identity politics on college campuses and to be honest, I can only hope it continues because American by and large are not buying it.
It is not the case that I can predict your views knowing that you are a white male. I cannot predict your views if you are a black female, and it is height of both arrogance and condescension to think that somebody can be type casted on the base of.
Multiculturalism and academic feminism started disparaging works of genius on the basis of their authors' sex and race.
I think that some part of society is worried that the racial achievement gap is not going to close. And so we've become obsessed with trying to find instances of racism to explain it.
A lot of Hollywood kids went to my grammar school growing up. I'm completely unmoved by it.
I don't understand how people of intelligence can reconcile what I see as constant proof of divine indifference to human outcomes with a reverence for God. To me it's a mystery.
Proactive policing has saved tens of thousands of minority lives since the mid-1990s.
But in fact it makes a lot of sense to have a Blue Lives Matter movement because officers are putting their lives on the line every day.
I think a lot of people are clueless about the degree of hatred of whites.
Companies want to be able to hire employees with an elite university diploma to make their personnel lists look impressive.
European operetta and German singspiel provided the American musical its combination of spoken dialogue and song; the inclusion of dance traced a lineage to French baroque opera. But what a difference!
Police departments are under enormous political pressure to hire based on race, despite existing efforts to recruit minorities, on the theory that doing so will decrease police shootings of minorities.
The persistent belief that we are living through an epidemic of racially biased police shootings is a creation of selective reporting.
Trade protectionism has an American lineage dating back to the Founders; that lineage is distinct from white nationalism.
The important thing to understand about eliminating racial preferences in college admissions is that doing so does not lower the number of minority college students, it just redistributes them to schools for which they are actually qualified, rather than catapulting them into academic environments where they will inevitably struggle.
Western classical music had long known syncopation. But no one had felt compelled to snap his fingers to music before American jazz and musical theater, which sent a previously undiscovered current coursing through the body, demanding outlet.
