Today is the birthday of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). I was gratified to learn this weekend that my sons had studied his 1899 poem “The White Man’s Burden” in school, and that they had been taught the poem in much the same way as I had been taught it in the early 1980s, as a problematic [...]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 07:18AM on December 30, 2012