The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should provide an exampl….

I think the universities have co-opted the intellectual, by and large. But there is an emerging intellectual set coming out of Washington think tanks….

Mexicans who come to America today end up opposing assimilation. They say they are "holding on to their culture." To them, I say, "If you really want….

The Census Bureau is thinking of creating a new category because so many kids don't know how to describe themselves using the existing categories. I ….