On a seemingly daily basis, we hear about racist incidents that suggest both America’s obsession with and inability to deal effectively with race. These include the recent incident in which a Black ...

Have you ever had the experience where a sales pitch felt intrusive and even offensive because it was delivered in a social context? Recently I was out to dinner with a friend. We were brainstorming ...

Social constructionism, a popular belief system in many humanities departments, “is the epistemology of scholarship in haste, of professors under the gun,” writes Mark Bauerlein, a professor of ...

Source: Image by Dee from Pixabay. Empathy, a cornerstone of human interaction, is an enigmatic construct. It is a rich tapestry of genuine concern, social expectation, and perfunctory exchanges.

However, as we discover more about ourselves and the world around us, we have learned that this isn’t true and it never was. Like I mentioned before, gender is a social construct, and essentialist ...

IN OUR country today, the phrase “social construct” is often used rather casually, particularly in discussions about ethnicity, identity and social relations. Many speak about it with great confidence ...

Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show, recently released an autobiography entitled Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. As a biracial man born and raised in South Africa, he shares ...