Obama and the Myth of a Post-Racial America: A Response to ‘Fear of a Black President’

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Shawn Maxam responds to The Atlantic article ‘Fear of a Black President’

Muscular Empathy: Why We Shouldn’t Judge People of the Past with our Knowledge of the Future

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Shawn Maxam believes our obessesion with judging people of the past prevents us from creating a better present and thus a truly transformative future.

Everyone Is on the ‘Down Low’ These Days

(I’m often asked what has happened to a particular person, or trend, that I’ve written about in The New York Times Magazine. People want to know what happened to the transgender middle-schooler, M., who was secretly living as a boy. Or they want to know how the young gay married couples I profiled are doing [...]