January 08, 2003
RELIGION: Kwanzaa
If you missed it, the Wall Street Journal had a great piece on Kwanzaa over the holidays, and unlike, say, Ann Coulter, the Journal took the holiday and its guiding principles seriously and refrained from just piling scorn on it as a novel or artificial holiday. But the critique of Kwanzaa's separatist appeals and Tanzanian economics is all the more devastating for being a sober and respectful analysis.