By Noel Ignatiev A former student sent me a link to an article in The Guardian (U.S. Edition) of July…
Gangs of New York
By Noel Ignatiev How we look at the past reveals a great deal about us in the present. Consider a…
Influence
By Noel Ignatiev The summer following my first year in graduate school at the University, I took a job running…
Passing
By Noel Ignatiev In the summer of 1961 I left the University of Pennsylvania and took a job at a…
Who Lost an American?
by Joel Gilbert, as told to Noel Ignatiev I was born in 1973, and grew up in Port Huron, Michigan,…
The Beauty of Language
By Noel Ignatiev “It was the crossover play on the right wing,” Curry’s teammate Andre Iguodala said in recalling the…
In Response to Charleston
By Noel Ignatiev America is the Society of the Spectacle, and, predictably, much of the response to the Charleston shootings…
Beyond the Spectacle: New Abolitionists Speak Out
by John Garvey & Noel Ignatiev Our initial reaction to the Rachel Dolezal story was: what’s the big deal? America…
Reflections on John Brown
By Noel Ignatiev Russell Banks described John Brown as the one figure in American history all blacks think is a…
Doddering Old Fool Addresses Problems of Antizionism
By Noel Ignatiev The following is from an exchange that took place between June 8 and June 11. There were…