Essays examining the role of shame as an American cultural practice and how public shaming enforces conformity and group coherence. On any given day in America�

This is a true story of the Americans of Guam. Abandoned by their government even before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. That abandonment opened the door f

A look at how fatness became a cultural stigma in the United States.

The United States today is hopelessly polarized; the political Right and Left have hardened into rigid and deeply antagonistic camps, preventing any sort of pro

Since the early 1980s, when the federal courts began dismantling the landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education, segregation of black children has reverted