Everything we know about hubris we learned from Chinua Achebe. We read Things Fall Apart for the first time in eighth grade. Our teachers used the term ‘tragic pride’ so much that our friends dropped it into daily conversations like it was going out of style.

Larry is a phone salesman; he�s the kind of responsible American man that is �able to support [his] wife to stay at home and raise [his] children.� He�s been dying to get his hands on the camouflage Lambourgini of his dreams. But Larry�s not ...

I recently spent a week in London. I decided, then, to review its nation, England. Here is my account . . .
England is a country that is in the Atlantic Ocean. It’s close to big Europe. Its terrain includes grassy field, rocky road, river, tree-dotted park, concrete, sea, and people-dotted street ...

I love me some baby Jesus.
Mmm, hmmm. A little baby Jesus.
Yummy.
But say the baby Jesus grew up and that after graduating from Nazareth High, he went to Princeton with the aid of our progressive financial aid program to make up for the money that he didn’t ...

Hampton University, glorious HBCU academic institution of heartland Virginia, shudders under the dominion of The Force. “What is The Force?” you may ask. It is not, in point of fact, anything associated with the brawny arm of government oppression, nor has it anything to do with white Virginians taunting Hampton ...

“What’s the point of instruments?/Words are a sawed off shotgun,” cries Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke on the band’s newest studio album, (In Rainbows). How true those words are. It’s not that the music on the band’s newest disc isn’t worth listening to.

During the vice-presidential debate, Sarah Palin was asked twice if she wanted to respond to Joe Biden’s accusation that the subprime mortgage crisis was attributable to the deregulation that John McCain and other Republicans had actively supported since George Bush took the White House. She chose at each moment ...

I find it disturbing, though, that the consumer public has no problem with their children being told that both boys and girls should learn to identify with male characters as standard characters. We’re not talking about Disney princesses; these are literally goo monsters.