The summer of race, gender, and religion

At least, that's how the presidential election seems to be framing the "national conversation" this year. Aren't race, gender, and religion the three topics you're not supposed to raise in polite company? All the more reason to raise them, if you ask me. Polite company could probably stand having its preconceptions and assumptions shaken and challenged. That's what Algore invented the internets for.