Mark Dunbar
Mark Dunbar is a freelance writer based in Indianapolis. He can be reached by email at mark.dunbar1988@gmail.com or on Twitter @Mark1Dunbar.
Posts by Mark Dunbar
Of Gods & Bosses
RELIGIOUS FEELING has always been a catalyst for both extreme resistance and extreme acquiescence to power. As Frederick Douglass wrote in his 1845 memoir,... Read More
The Enigma of Clarence Thomas
BY COREY ROBIN HENRY HOLT & CO., 2019 320 PP.; $30.00 Clarence Thomas is the most right-wing justice on the Supreme Court, and one... Read More
Imperial Borders and Mythical Frontiers
IMMIGRATION IS THE FOCAL POINT of the political moment, and it is the thing we Americans think about most foolishly—with the least history or... Read More
Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court
BY SIMON TAM TROUBLEMAKER PRESS, 2019 326 PP.; $26.99 Debates on free speech nowadays tend to revolve around whether one should be free to... Read More
“America First” All over Again?
BEFORE STEVE BANNON was kicked out of the White House in the fall of 2017, he said he wanted the Trump presidency to be... Read More
Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America’s Heartland
BY JONATHAN METZL BASIC BOOKS, 2019 352 PP.; $32.00 Almost everyone will be familiar with the general thesis of Jonathan Metzl’s book, Dying of Whiteness:... Read More
Sorry, It’s Hard: Forgiveness in the #MeToo Era
Forgiveness as a social grace has been much discussed lately. With the #MeToo movement, men have worried what they could do, if anything, to... Read More