by David Tollen | Sep 18, 2022 | Iron Age, The Postclassical Age, Author's Corner, Linguistics & Philology
The new Tolkien series, “Rings of Power,” stirred up controversy by casting non-white actors. And the casting debate has awakened old claims that racism shapes Tolkien’s fiction. Those accusations rely on misunderstandings of The Lord of the Rings,...
by David Tollen | Sep 13, 2021 | The Recent Modern Age, Current Politics
For most of its history, the United States had a ruling majority. But during the late 20th Century, that White caste divided into two groups, which I’ll call Metropolitan Whites and Heartland Whites. They have different interests, so they no longer cooperate, which...
