Asked how she came up with her list of 46 indicators of white privilege, McIntosh says, "I asked myself, On a daily basis, what do I have that I didn't earn? It was like a prayer. The New Yorker has a great interview with Peggy McIntosh, the women's studies scholar whose writing on "white privilege" helped to popularize the phrase among white Americans in the '80s.
If his writings are in certain points open to criticism, they show extraordinary power, & are more deeply American, democratic, & in the interest of political liberty, than those of any other poet."
The Vault, Slate's history blog, features a letter of recommendation that Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote in 1863 for Walt Whitman, who was applying for a government job: "Will you permit me to say that he is known to me as a man of strong original genius, combining, with marked eccentricities, great powers & valuable traits of character: a self-relying large-hearted man, much beloved by his friends entirely patriotic & benevolent in his theory, tastes, & practice. But novelist Sophie Hannah, whose Poirot adaptation is coming out this fall, tells The Guardian she is skeptical, calling it "an interesting story, but the fact that Agatha never mentioned it makes me wonder why not? Perhaps unreasonably, I tend only to take things as Agatha gospel if they come from either Agatha's own words, her family, or her ace archivist Dr John Curran." Perhaps we can't have Poirot's origin story, but we can buy his mustache, "made with genuine, healthy human hair." How about a refugee police officer? A retired police officer." Michael Clapp, the retired commander, was researching family history when he came across an old newspaper clipping showing that Christie and Hornais likely knew each other. 
Why not make my detective a Belgian? I thought. Christie wrote in her autobiography, "We had quite a colony of Belgian refugees living in the parish of Tor.
A retired British navy commander thinks he may have found the inspiration for Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in a Belgian refugee and retired policeman named Jacques Hornais who lived near Christie's home in England. The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. David Suchet (right) as detective Hercule Poirot in an adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express.
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