It was the nineteen-eighties, the height of a certain panic. Reaganism reigned, but even Democrats agreed upon scapegoating America’s Blacks as the source of...
When the critic Joanna Biggs was thirty-two, her mother, still in her fifties, was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. “Everything wobbled,” she recalls. Biggs was married...
In 2001, the libertarian anti-tax activist Grover Norquist gave a memorable interview on NPR about his intentions. He said, “I don’t want to abolish...