Barack Obama
Tea Party: a Nation of Islam for White People?
Jenean McBrearty offers a response to JoAnn Wypijewski’s “Outside a Tea Party“: While in graduate school in the 1980s, I was often alone in empty halls after undergrads had left.…
Obama’s Nobel: A Jewish Conspiracy to Combat Space Nazis
At last, someone presents a justification for Obama’s Nobel Prize I can get behind: Fighting Nazis on the moon.
Ghosts of Cairo
Anthea Butler hears the ghost of Malcolm X in Obama’s Cairo speech. “So the past isn’t over until we understand it,” writes poet Lawrence Raab in his new book, The…
The Supreme Love and Revolutionary Funk of Dr. Cornel West, Philosopher of the Blues
(A version of this article first appeared in the May 28, 2009 Rolling Stone.) Cornel West is a slender man, but he hugs like a sumo wrestler: crouch, grab, wrap…
