Open Letter to Senator John Thune (R-South Dakota)

Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male Open Letter to Senator John Thune (R – South Dakota) NOTE: Michael Kruse just published his in-depth article on Majority Leader Thune at Politico. In it, he references my letters to the Senator. […]
Soul of America

Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male Jon Meachem has given us a worthy contemplation on the state of the nation. He calls it, The Soul of America – The Battle for our Better Angels. Meachem is not the only […]
Introducing the Beached White Male

Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male OK – I’m stealing this phrase, “Beached White Male,” admittedly, from Newsweek Magazine. On April 17, 2011, the cover story featured the photograph of a middle-aged, graying white male in a black suit, […]
Theon Hill: Race and Rhetoric

Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male Theon Hill: Race and Rhetoric by Ken Kemp – Posted: February 15, 2018 Podcast Show Notes Theon Hill, Ph.D. This is the inaugural podcast for the Beached White Male. Ken interviews Dr. Theon […]
The Donald and Amway (The American Way)

Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male Trumpism as a movement takes me back to my Amway days – back in the 1980s. Trump, more than anything else, is the embodiment of that cartoonish caricature of the American business paradigm. […]
Reflections on Larycia Hawkins, PhD

Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male Author’s Note: I wrote this piece back in February 2016. It was virtually contemporaneous to the events that led to Dr. Hawkins departure from Wheaton College. In April this year, 2019, I had the […]
Political Correctness

Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections, and observations from the Beached White Male Ken’s Blog Musings, reflections and observations from the Beached White Male One of the prime targets in the current Presidential campaign is “political correctness” or “PC” (caps intentional). The aspiring politician will assert: “I am certainly not bound by the constraints of political correctness…” […]