Kennedy's assassination. Mark is inspired by a revelation he wants to share with everyone. From Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr: "First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion ...
Before his assassination in 1961, Rafael Trujillo, the absolute dictator of the Dominican Republic, had been in a quarrel with the Roman Catholic Church. At one point in his historical novel, The Feast of the Goat, Mario Vargas Llosa, a Nobel Literature Prize Laureate from Peru, has one of...
The recent bookBattle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Yale law professor Amy Chua, has provoked a firestorm of controversy and discussion, much to the publisher’s glee, no doubt. (See Ayelet Waldman,In Defense of the Guilty, Ambivalent, Preoccupied Western Mom; Ann Hulbert,Hear the Tiger Moth...