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This issue goes back to education. The article presented in this issue concerns the governmental efforts to improve education for African Americans. Poor African Americans, as well as other poor people, still do not do very well in school. It is no way out of poverty for them, however much President Obama preaches that education is the route to upward mobility. Indeed, the Supreme Court decision in 2003 that upheld affirmative action in college admissions was an admission of this failure: we know how to give reparations to people even if we don't know how to fix the system that makes reparations necessary.
The purpose of this e-journal is to use in tandem the techniques of literary criticism and social structural analysis to illuminate American politics and the various institutions in American society and sometimes matters more global, like religion or war, by turning an eye on the events and objects and performances that are considered art and entertainment, those defined broadly enough to include whatever is covered in newspapers and other media. Another concern is to pick up the texture of social life, both in the United States and in general, through the analysis of those events, objects and performances that are to be found in everyday life. |
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The Political Ticker
Caro
- May 12, 2012
Joe Biden and the Gays
- May 8, 2012
May Day, 2012
- May 2, 2012
The Talking Pineapple
- April 29, 2012
The Hillary Rosen Kerfuffle
- April 16, 2012
The Way Supreme Court Justices Reason
- March 28, 2012
Previous Political Tickers
The Constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act
-March 26, 2012
The News Lull
-March 22, 2012
That Palin Movie
-March 14, 2012
The War Against Secularism
-March 6, 2012
William Jefferson Clinton
-February 26, 2012
The Rick Santorum Moment
-February 11, 2012
On the Brink of the Florida Primary
-January 30, 2012
The Tampa Bay Republican Debate
-January 24, 2012
Since the South Carolina Primary
-January 23, 2012
On the Brink of the South Carolina Primary
-January 21, 2012
The 2012 New Hampshire Primary
-January 11, 2012
The 2012 Iowa Caucuses
-January 4, 2012
Iowa on the Brink
-December 24, 2011
Birenbaum: The Long View on Disability and Employment
-December 15, 2011
Herman Cain and Other Republican Fiascos
-December 6, 2011
The Consensus on Obama
-November 18, 2011
The Michigan Republican Debate
-November 11, 2011
Rick Perry's Vamp
-November 1, 2011
The Huntsman Longshot
-October 30, 2011
The Dartmouth Republican Primary Debate
-October 12, 2011
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The Cultural Ticker
The Talking Pineapple, Again
- May 3, 2012
Derek Jeter
- April 30, 2012
The Future is Now
- April 27, 2012
Gerontology
- April 18, 2012
The Story of the "Titanic"
- April 12, 2012
The American Wing at the Met
- April 6, 2012
Previous Cultural Tickers
Daniel Defoe and the Eurocrisis
-April 3, 2012
The Creation of Woman
-March 19, 2012
Renaissance Portraits at the Met
-March 4, 2012
The Social Psychology of Ethnic Groups
-February 22, 2012
"The Turin Horse"
-February 21, 2012
The 2012 Academy Award Best Picture Nominees
-February 17, 2012
A Fifties Activist
-February 14, 2012
Ian W. Toll's "Pacific Crucible"
-February 3, 2012
Science and Art in America
-January 17, 2012
Three Non-Oscar Movies
-January 10, 2012
"Madmen", Then and Now
-December 27, 2011
Kahneman's Fallacies
-December 5, 2011
Global Warming Again
-November 29, 2011
Shylock and the Debt Crisis
-November 28, 2011
Consumer Choice
-October 23, 2011
Birenbaum on the 9-11 Memorial
-October 15, 2011
The Golden Rule Revisited
-September 29, 2011
Poussin's "Blind Orion"
-September 22, 2011
Andy Kaufman
-September 17, 2011
Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto"
-September 13, 2011
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