"With great power comes great responsibility." Uncle Ben was right. After all, it's the underlying ethos of all the superhero movies I've ever seen, from both the Marvel and the DC universes. The climax of most of the movies, especially the origin stories, seems to be that moment of self-actualization--"I am Iron Man!"--where the acceptance … Continue reading “Black Panther” and the Morality of Power
Month: February 2018
My Adventure with “The New Jim Crow”
The New Jim Crow, Michelle Alexander's 2010 racial critique of mass incarceration, is back in the news, thanks to a New York Times article on the surprising decision by North Carolina prisons to remove it from a banned books list. I had an adventure with that book, myself. A few years ago, I offered to … Continue reading My Adventure with “The New Jim Crow”