In less than 25 years from now, white people will become a minority in America. Keith Boykin ’87 connects this fact to what he argues is a latent racism in white Americans that will ignite a racial civil war in Race Against Time: The Politics of a Darkening America, a digestible and at times revelatory but ultimately unconvincing synopsis of the trajectory of race in America.
Matthew O. Skrod reviews Professor Vaughn Booker’s recent, innovative study of jazz and African American religious authority.
This divergence between the right to possess and carry around a weapon as expressed in the Constitution and its recognition (or lack thereof) by individual states serves as the topic of The Right to Bear Arms: A Constitutional Right of People or a Privilege of the Working Class?, the newest analysis of Second Amendment history by noted appellate lawyer and scholar Stephen Halbrook.
Matthew O. Skrod reflects on William F. Buckley’s first book, seventy years on, and comments on the present state of affairs at Dartmouth.
Matthew O. Skrod reviews the six films screened at Dartmouth in September 2021 following their appearance at the Telluride Film Festival earlier in the month.
I have only recently begun to do my studying in the East Reading Room. In terms past, I have preferred to work in the older,…
Matthew O. Skrod investigates the formidable Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Script Collection at Rauner Library.
Samson, the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites according to the Hebrew Bible, wears a modern face in Black Samson: The Untold Story of an American Icon by Dr. Jeremy Schipper and Dr. Nyasha Junior.
In an age of iron triangles and revolving doors, impossible-to-audit defense budgets and “national security professionals,” does the quality and character of the middle-aged man…
On Thursday, April 8th, the Society of Fellows hosted a remote lecture via Zoom delivered by Dr. Kiarina Kordela entitled “Biopower From Here to Eternity.”