Reckonings

This week, we are talking about race and sex, plus: Andrew Cuomo's female enablers, taxes, and Deb Haaland

An illustration from Harrie Irving Hancock, Physical Training for Businessmen (1917). Photo credit: "Mr Phelan"/via Public Domain Review.

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Racial Reckonings

• Mark Williams, “I Am a Man: As the nation looks for justice in the George Floyd murder, activists embrace the world Martin Luther King, Jr. envisioned during the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers strike.” (March 18, 2021)

• Nadia Kim, “Asian Americans Suffer From Trump’s Racist Attacks Too: The long history of America’s hostility toward immigrants from China, Japan, and Korea.” (July 23, 2020)

Sexual Reckonings

• Mitchell Abidor, “The Matzneff Affair: Should Love Have No Age Limit? Sex and the Sixties, from Lolita to Vanessa Springora’s consent.” (March 16, 2021)

• Amanda Katz, “Hilaria Baldwin’s Newest Baby Should Make Us All Happy: A fresh baby makes us understand how little we understand of other families.” (March 15, 2021)

History Reconsidered

• Bennett Parten, “We Lionize Abraham Lincoln – But John Wilkes Booth Still Embodies a Part of America’s Soul: How the insurrection on January 6th brought a legendary assassin back to life.” (March 18, 2021)

The Business of America 

• Pat Garofalo, “Location, Location, Location! Why tax breaks are such a negligible part of corporate decision-making.” (March 18, 2021)

Our Columnists

• Claire Potter, “Andrew Cuomo’s Female Enablers: Powerful men have recruited successful women to shield and defend them for decades – but other feminists are seeing the bigger picture.” (March 18, 2021)

• Heather Cox Richardson, “The Department of the Interior’s New Face: Deb Haaland represents a reckoning with the fossil fuel industry–and our history of mistreating indigenous people.” (March 17, 2021)