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Ta-Nehisi Coates

Bruce Springsteen or Ta-Nehisi Coates?

John Fea   |  October 30, 2024

Dave Masciotra compares Bruce Springsteen’s liberalism with Ta-Nehisi Coates’s progressivism: By the turn of the century, the New Jersey native had already established himself as a rock and roll legend. But his artistic reaction to 9/11 enhanced his importance. Less […]

On the “poverty of anti-wokeness”

John Fea   |  January 2, 2024

Over at Compact, writer Geoff Shullenberger reviews five books on “wokeness.” They are: Frederik deBoer, How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement Richard Hanania, The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics Yascha […]

What are incoming first-year college students reading this summer?

John Fea   |  July 24, 2021

As part of its first-year experience program, incoming first-year students at Messiah University are reading Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. They will not be alone. Here is Audrey Williams June and Jacquelyn Elias at The Chronicle of […]

Well, I guess the University of North Carolina blew that one

John Fea   |  July 7, 2021

Did you hear that the University of North Carolina finally gave tenure to former New York Times journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones? Hannah-Jones is the Pulitzer Prize-winning creator of the controversial 1619 Project. After North Carolina’s Hussman School of Journalism and Media […]