Lots of people and companies have been called out for cultural appropriation. But cultural appropriation is not always as obvious as Khloe Kardashian's cornrows. Some people say it can be a major ...

The movement’s architects saw the inadequacy of liberal solutions to racial injustice. Yet the term has become a lullaby by which liberals self-soothe. Like his collaborator Richard Pryor, Mooney used ...

The hosts discuss a recent New Yorker essay about the ubiquity—and meaning-inverting impact— of “P.O.V.” videos. Inspired by the recent New Yorker article by Lauren Michele Jackson, the hosts wrangle ...

Penguin Press will publish Ron Chernow’s biography on Mark Twain next week, on May 13. A recent article by Lauren Michele Jackson in this week’s edition of the magazine, the “New Yorker,” reviewed ...

Introduction : appropriation and American mythmaking -- The pop star : swinging and singing -- The cover girl : blackness, groundbreaking -- The artist : a dead boy made art -- The hipster : the new ...