Barbie Serves to Uphold the Very Gender Stereotypes it Strives to Undermine This is not a movie review. It is a movie commentary. I am not here to tell you whether Greta Gerwig’s new adaptation of Barbie into a major motion picture is good or bad (it’s absolutely fantastic!), but rather to draw on the […]
You Don’t Know What You Got ’Til It’s Gone This past weekend, Dead and Company played its final three shows before a packed house at Oracle Park in San Fransisco, marking an end point to a musical journey that began in the same place nearly sixty years ago. And so comes to a close a […]
Zen and the Art of Ice Hockey Shenanigans My family is hardly what you would call a bunch of highly-skilled athletes. In fact, we may be to sports what the Kardashians are to academic debate. My father, despite having lived on a golf course for nearly two decades now and taking lessons for most of […]
Pulling the Ladder Up Behind You I am old enough to remember what it was like to go to college with black people. Unfortunately, my own children will know no such thing. In two cases brought by conservative students applying to Harvard and the University of North Carolina, the Supreme Court last Thursday struck down […]
