Sublime

W. E. B. Du Bois taught us this, and we teach it to our students. Whiteness was offered as a promise. Precarity makes it less sturdy. There are White people who work hard all of their lives and Whiteness gives them little materially. On the other hand, there are White people who come from powerful edifices, who can point to paintings on Vanderbilt’

In April 2016, after a debate performance that’s widely viewed as disastrous for Hillary, Correct The Record is at the ready to declare the opposite: “Good Night for Hillary, Bad Night for Bernie.”

After all, the most powerful and well-funded propagandists in politics—liberals, conservatives, and the media—have been soundly defeated. Made into fools. Schooled by a political amateur.

The author Joan C. Williams, in an insightful article, explains that the American working class is impressed by the rich, as role models—something people in the media, who communicate with one another but rarely with subjects in the real world, don’t realize, as they impart normative ideas to people (“this is how they should think”). Michèle Lamont

Black Twitter,

Black liberation theology.

the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship and the Knight Commission on Trust, Media and Democracy.

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