by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on October 23, 2019 As with other recipients of the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, Dave Chappelle (who receives the prize this Sunday at the Kennedy Center) has a few basic things in common with the award’s namesake. The most...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on February 12th, 2018 Although I generally like Chris Rock as a comedian, one of his jokes has always rubbed me the wrong way. Rock told the joke back in 1999 as part of the Kennedy Center’s program honoring Richard Pryor as the...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on February 3, 2017 In marking the beginning of Black History Month the other day, President Donald Trump commended Frederick Douglass as “an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on May 8, 2018 Saturday, April 21, marked the 108th anniversary of Mark Twain’s passing. For Twain, whose final decade was wracked by overwhelming bereavement, the promise of death’s release was something welcome. By the end of his...
by admin | Apr 25, 2025 | The Study
Originally posted by: Dwayne Eutsey on June 5, 2017 by In a recent New York Times column heralding “The Collapse of American Identity,” Robert Jones notes that British writer G.K. Chesterton once observed that the United States was “a nation with the soul of a...