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, The Simpsons vowed that it would no longer have white actors voice non-white characters. This was a big change for the long-running series, as it had allowed regular performers such as Harry Shearer and Hank Azaria to voice the likes of Apu, Carl and Dr. Hibbert for the past 30 years. It’s possible that the new mandate came from above, though, as creator Matt Groening has now revealed that he wasn’t the one pushing for the change. While speaking to The BBC, Groening defended the show’s traditional approach to dishing out roles between the cast, admitting that he didn’t have a prob...

"The Simpsons" white voice actor Harry Shearer will no longer voice Black character Dr. Hibbert and be replaced by Kevin Michael Richardson.

Whenever I witness a transport airplane cross a runway threshold by a few feet, I think back to all the accidents in which aiming for "brick one" ended badly.

AP Photo/Susan Walsh As Nick Arama reported earlier, Joe Biden made a rather wild claim about the coronavirus vaccine during last night’s CNN town hall with Anderson Cooper. During a discussion on the availability of the vaccine and the timeline for Biden’s vaccine administration goals, Biden told Cooper that “we didn’t have” the vaccine when he came into office: And the biggest thing, though, as you remember when you and I, I shouldn’t say it that way, as remember, but when you and I talked last, we talked about it’s one thing to have the vaccine, which we didn’t have when we...

At nonsite, the art historian Blake Stimson throws some cold water on the currently fashionable injunctions to “decolonize your syllabus.” The problem, Stimson says, is that “decolonization” just doesn’t meaningfully apply to university curricula in former imperial centers. The idea that it does reflects a sort of “colonial narcissism.” For Stimson, "decolonizing your syllabus” in fact involves not decolonization but “neocolonialism,” a term he takes from Sartre via Kwame Nkrumah, the first prime minister of Ghana and the author of Neo-Colonialism (1965). For Nkrumah, ne...