Olivier Roy’s new book on culture and identity politics is intuitive, brilliant, and probably wrong
The LA music writer who took down Post Malone talks about Baton Rouge rap, the pillaging of the ‘LA Weekly,’ and what Philip Roth has in common with Drakeo
How George Gershwin’s stipulation that his opera, currently at the Met, be performed by an all-black cast, plays in the America of then and now
How victimhood became a moral currency dependent on defining and policing the boundaries of human identity
What Roxane Gay’s attack on Benioff and Weiss says about America today
But not, like, that culturally appropriated sushi foodstuffs that Oberlin serves its student body
Double standards—about my hair, the way I speak, and my ‘goy booty’—make me feel a loss of identity as a Black American Jew
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