Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotions and helps us to articulate them. This is why music is so important to adolescents, who are struggling with questions of identity… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
In all likelihood, the only thing extraordinary about Tiger Woods was his golf: he had extraordinary coordination and extraordinary discipline - on the course,… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
In one sense, Obama's point couldn't be clearer: race is a distraction from class-based inequities. And if we dismiss working-class resentment as camouflaged racism,… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Top-up fees mean that universities are increasingly under pressure to confer degrees upon students, who perceive the degree as a commodity they've purchased. Failure… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Facts might be false if they challenge the conviction of a mind already made up. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“The Volstead Act, prohibiting the production, sale, and transport of “intoxicating liquors,” became law on January 17, 1920. Prohibition didn’t prohibit much, and incited… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Art cannot, perhaps, impose order on life—but it teaches us to admire even the unruliest of revelations. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“History resembles a guest list, in that sense, of the invited and the gate-crashers, the people, for whom we have been waiting, and those… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Music - not just the lyrics, but the music itself - expresses confused or illicit passions: rage, lust, envy, frustration, channeling these energies and… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Racism is an effect of slavery, not the other way around. Once slavery was abolished, not only did racism not disappear, neither did the… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
History resembles a guest list in that sense of the invited and the gatecrashers: the people for whom we have been waiting, and those… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
“young people no longer “believe in the old standards and authorities, and they’re not intelligent enough, many of them, to put a code of… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty -… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
'Sesame Street' was a pioneering educational T.V. show, intended to help underprivileged children. But even those of us middle-class kids spoilt for pedagogical choice… — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
