Summary: Was Dr. Seuss racist? Or did his books just not age well? And what is the appropriate response to a canonical work that seems to be littered with racially charged depictions? <a href="https://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/">Philip Nel</a> takes on all these questions and poses some more of his own in his latest book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/019063507X/?tag=slatmaga-20"><em>Was the Cat in the Hat Black?</em></a><br>In the Spiel, what if the office of the presidency were leveraged for the sake of constant distraction? We are finding out.
