GeneralAuthenticity Watch: Organic MattressesYou have to hand it to the New York Times: With Americans facing what is shaping up to be the worst economic downturns in...
GeneralAuthenticity Watch: The HeartlandThomas Frank’s column in today’s WSJ does a good job of setting up my piece in the print edition of Maclean’s out tomorrow. Here’s...
GeneralJesse’s GiftA big controversy surfaced yesterday over Jesse Jackson’s comment—heard on a ‘hot mic’—while being interviewed by Fox...
General’Nilla like meLet’s face it, for all his popularity with regular black people, B-Rock was never going to win the Black Authenticity game with...
GeneralAuthenticity Watch: Kingsely AmisThe deafness that we have to our own aesthetic prejudices and biases is closely analogous to our deafness to our own accent. Just...
GeneralAuthenticity Watch: HarlemI spent a good chunk of the past two years living part-ish time in Harlem, in a brownstone at the corner of 128th and Madison. And...