What if you soul-searched over an event that — you learn later — didn't happen?

Pity France , which self-critiqued over the Strauss-Kahn case that now seems not to have been what it once appeared to be. His arrest... led...

American exceptionalism "is infused with racialized hierarchies — normative whiteness and masculinity still marking the 'worthiest' inheritors of the American dream."

Writes lawprof Patricia J. Williams , in a collection of essays in the NYT responding to a new study indicating that white people think disc...

"The Audacity of Oprah."

I'm always happy to see a new article by my old colleague Patricia Williams — did you know that my office at Wisconsin is her old offic...

"We think the ad's authors were right to give voice to the students quoted, whose suffering is real."

Here 's the new open letter from various Duke University professors , saying why their original ad -- "This is a social disaster...

Joan Didion on Terri Schiavo.

Didion finds many interesting angles to the story. Her focus is not legal, but personal and psychological. She examines not just the motiva...