About That Gladwell Quotation….

18May10

ELH’s comment, re-posted: As a journalist, let me say that I hope that the stories told by preachers and writers/journalists (and even Malcolm Gladwell, whatever it is that he is, exactly) are very, very different things. As a Jew married to a Jewish atheist, let me say: Sheesh. I’m sure that many Hindus, Muslims, Seventh […]

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Tags: journalism, malcolm gladwell, religion, ta-nehisi coates, the atlantic

Honoring CHM: Questioning Your Education

27Apr10

Coates has managed to take advantage of Gov. Bob McDonnell’s proposal to honor Confederate History Month by dedicating a series of posts to the true legacy of the Confederacy. I remember a while back when Andrew Sullivan did the “It’s so Personal” posts on abortion, the Atlantic put all of the posts under one link. […]

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Tags: civil war, coates, confederacy, confederate history month, lost cause, ta-nehisi coates, the atlantic, tnc

Housekeeping

07Apr10

First up, you’ll notice I finally added my fellow TNC commenters’ blogs under “Ta-Nehisians.” They blog on quite a variety of topics; here I was all thinking everyone just has esoteric blogs on political communication and whatever the fuck else they feel like. But anyway, please check out their stuff. I’ll be reading them near […]

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Tags: bloc party, changing my mind, chelsea, chelsea fc, john keats, kris downer, kylopod, michael jordan, reggie miller, Rush Limbaugh, so here we are, soccerlens, ta-nehisi coates, the atlantic, white teeth, zadie smith

On to the Next One

05Mar10

Meant to do this big post off of something TNC wrote this week. It’ll get done. Til then, how has this not been getting more play on AMTV? Or whatever the hell VH1 calls their morning music video programming?  Have to listen to damn Trey Songz instead…anyway, music video directors are stepping up their game […]

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Tags: jay-z, on to the next one, swizz beatz, ta-nehisi coates

Death of Genres

10Feb10

Had what turned out to be a long comment on TNC’s post on Nas/Illmatic/Hip hop is dead. I always think I’ve lost some of my affection for music, but I still have the ability to ramble on about it: I guess I’ll start off by saying hip-hop isn’t my forte, and I’ve actually only really […]

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Tags: 50 cent, billy corgan, clinton era, eminem, genre, hip-hop, hip-hop is dead, illmatic, nas, neil young, nelly, rap, rock, smashing pumpkins, ta-nehisi coates