Richard Rodriguez is the author of "Brown: The Last Discovery of America."

Richard Rodriguez's Salon stories

Thursday, May 28, 2009 03:28 PDT

Judging the unmarried

Proposition 8 and the Sonia Sotomayor nomination expose the hypocritical state of the sexual revolution today.
Friday, Feb 13, 2009 03:50 PST

Depressed? No! We're angry

The media says Americans have the economic blues. But we're meeting these down times the way we always have: Not with resignation but with grit, compassion and humor.
Saturday, Feb 9, 2008 04:37 PST

Hillary Clinton, the first Latina in chief?

Clinton's popularity with Latino voters reminds us that people of color do not walk in lock step. There's a lesson here for Obama.
Tuesday, Apr 11, 2006 04:30 PDT

Immigration nation

The marches prove that immigrants are not alone. They have families -- and they're woven into our nation too deeply to tear out.
Tuesday, Apr 5, 2005 12:38 PDT

John Paul II Superstar

The pope and his made-for-TV papacy did more for the world at large than for his own church. But the cameras loved him to his final act.
Friday, Jun 14, 2002 12:22 PDT

My sad gay church

Whatever decision the Catholic bishops make in Dallas this week, it's sure to lack a widespread or profound understanding of sexuality and the priesthood.
Tuesday, Oct 23, 2001 01:00 PDT

Disunited we stand

The jingoistic cries of unity since Sept. 11 are disturbing -- and fundamentally un-American.
Wednesday, May 30, 2001 01:00 PDT

Black and tan fantasy

The Census says Hispanics are poised to outnumber blacks as America's largest "minority" -- but can Hispanics really be compared to African-Americans?
Thursday, Dec 7, 2000 01:00 PST

Prodigal father

For decades, Mexico has looked down on Mexican- Americans, but its new president is challenging the nation to look to them instead.
Thursday, Jul 13, 2000 12:00 PDT

How race is really lived in America

The New York Times assures us that relations between "blacks" and "whites" are "generally good." What about the rest of us?
Thursday, Jun 24, 1999 09:00 PDT

It's about spirituality, not sports

The X Games fulfill the human need to test limits and risk death at a time when technology has created the illusion that we're in control.
Wednesday, Jun 16, 1999 09:00 PDT

Magic's seductive hold

The murder of Mexican talk-show host Paco Stanley reveals the growing disjunction between illusion and reality in Mexico.
Monday, Apr 5, 1999 13:55 PDT

Darkest Europe

Today's heart of darkness lies at the far end of the Danube, and the savages have white skin.
Thursday, Nov 5, 1998 12:00 PST

A resounding moral defeat for the moralizers

Richard Rodriguez declares Tuesday's elections to be a resounding moral defeat for the moralizers
Thursday, Nov 5, 1998 09:09 PST

A resounding moral defeat for the moralizers

American voters refuse to bow before the high priests of scolding.
Monday, Oct 19, 1998 12:00 PDT

My heterosexual dilemma

Can someone please explain how flirting can lead to murder?
Thursday, Jan 29, 1998 12:00 PST

Newsreal: Defending the right to pry

Many commentators, notably feminists, dismiss stories about the sex life of President Clinton as irrelevant to his public role. But this drawing of a line between public and private lives, says a homosexual writer, cannot work.
Monday, Jan 19, 1998 12:00 PST

Newsreal: The odd couple

The pope's upcoming visit to Cuba and meeting with Fidel Castro is being depicted as a sort of ideological shootout: believer vs. atheist, Catholic vs. Communist, Old World vs. New. But the reality is much more complex.
Monday, Nov 10, 1997 12:00 PST

Newsreal: It's class, stupid

It still doesn't occur to many that affirmative action might be unfair to poor whites, or that minority kids drop out of college not because of their color but because they are poor. It should be class, not race, that matters in the post-affirmative action era.
Wednesday, Dec 4, 1996 12:00 PST

The Mouse That Squeaked

Don't believe that Disney's defense of the Dalai Lama is a brave stand for artistic expression. The entertainment colossus simply realized it was more expedient to give in to Hollywood's New Age orthodoxy than to Chinese bureaucrats.
Tuesday, Oct 15, 1996 04:25 PDT

We are all Roberto Alomar

We have met the jerks, and they are us
Thursday, Sep 5, 1996 12:20 PDT

The disappearing immigrant

Hey, Bill, immigrants are "the bridge to the future."
Monday, Jul 22, 1996 05:32 PDT

The New Paganism

Just as in ancient Greece, all that matters in Atlanta are hard bodies and winner-take-all Gold
Wednesday, May 22, 1996 10:12 PDT

Sexual meltdown

Author Richard Rodriguez says Justice Scalia is blaming gays for the big changes in sexual mores underway in America.

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