Imagine this scene: A conference room at a major publishing company, where the author of a new civics textbook…
Visitors to clothing-maker Benetton’s website are in for a surprise. Instead of being greeted by pictures of attractive men and…
The late comedian Flip Wilson used to get laughs when, by way of explaining his misdeeds, he would say…
Once upon a time, teachers had to keep a watchful eye for crib-notes, answers scrawled on palms, and glances…
Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote “there are no second acts in American life.” Fitzgerald was probably wrong when…
If you’re like me, when you heard the news reports about the outrageous comments made by John Rocker, the…
The Christmas issue of Newsweek magazine purports to give readers “A Guide to the 21st Century.” It is full of predictions…
They were images you won’t see on “America’s Funniest Home Videos” anytime soon. They featured the perpetrators of the…
A commercial for the United States Navy features a father and son playing on the beach with a voice-over…
When curators at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York arranged a new exhibit called “Sensation,” they probably…
