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October 14, 2024Ta-Nehisi Coates’s fundamental problem is that he is a narcissist. Other people interest him only insofar as they reflect his own thoughts and feelings. That is what makes him...
August 5, 2024If I told you that doctors had injected live cancer cells into elderly Jewish patients, including Holocaust survivors, without their consent for experimental purposes, you would be...
May 23, 2024The genre of “race memoir” is a dull and barren one, but Glenn Loury has transcended it to produce a great book. The difference is that most authors of race memoirs have...
March 7, 2024He was almost named “Nice Musk.” The richest man in the world was born, in 1971, exactly nine months after his parents’ honeymoon in France, and their initial...
February 5, 2024There was no such thing as “human resources” before 1958, when the term first appeared in print in an academic paper. The art of keeping one’s workforce in good...
