Watching America’s Crack-Up America was born of the virgin Liberty, and like the son of God in which it still largely believes, will always rise from the dead. Benjamin Kerstein 9 Aug 2021 · 20 min read
Historical Racism Is Not the Singular Cause of Racial Disparity The popular vision of race in America seems to be incapable of breaking the gridlock that places the fate of black Americans in the hands of white society and then condemns that society to the wasteland of history. Samuel Kronen 17 Jul 2021 · 25 min read
Standing up to the Social-Justice Mobs Within the Jewish Community The white Jewish leaders who attended were told in advance that they were expected to come and listen—to be seen and not heard. David Bernstein 5 Jul 2021 · 11 min read
The Bias Narrative versus the Development Narrative: Thinking About Persistent Racial Inequality in the United States How can you expect population parity in an enterprise when there are some groups (Asians? Jews?) who are significantly overrepresented? Glenn C. Loury 27 Jun 2021 · 26 min read
A Conversation with Daniel Elder, the Choral Music Composer Who Was Cancelled for Opposing Arson If you’re willing to endure the painful trial of self, you will be better for it in the end. And, with enough of us, the world will be better, too. Quillette 22 Jun 2021 · 9 min read
No, Critical Race Theory Isn’t a New Civil Rights Movement. (Just the Opposite) The difference between the civil rights movement and CRT isn’t one of degree or shade. It’s foundational. Kenny Xu and Christian Watson 6 Jun 2021 · 7 min read
Black Lives Matter and the Psychology of Progressive Fatalism There is nothing wrong with elevating anti-racism in one’s own life. But there is something wrong with imposing one’s moral reality upon total strangers. Samuel Kronen 28 May 2021 · 17 min read
Debate and Disinformation: The Ugly Quarrel Over the UK Government’s Race Report Most critics have instead based their criticism on the demonstrably false accusation that the report “denied the existence of institutional racism in the UK.” Damian Counsell 17 May 2021 · 24 min read
When Will Activists (and the Media) Get Honest About Police Shootings? Arthur Jeon 30 Apr 2021 · 13 min read
Rinaldo Walcott’s On Property—A Review Indeed, the title misleads: On Property focuses more on the historical threads linking the slave plantations to the abuses of modern policing than it does on its purported subject matter. Jonathan Salem-Wiseman 18 Apr 2021 · 7 min read
Black Lives Matter, So Refund the Police It is precisely because black lives matter that we must recognize that defunding the police has only hurt those it was intended to help. Andrew Sansone 12 Apr 2021 · 8 min read
The New Age of Empire—A Review Andrews believes none of this. He is right in seeing that the United States is now the world’s foremost imperial nation—it dominated most of the 20th century, assuming the white man’s burden from the British and the French. John Lloyd 10 Mar 2021 · 14 min read
Towards Practical Empowerment In A Critique of Anti-Racism, I offer empowerment theory as a framework for anti-racist work, whether it is activism or pedagogy. Erec Smith 19 Feb 2021 · 10 min read
Unspeakable Truths about Racial Inequality in America We have to make ourselves equal. No one can do it for us. Glenn C. Loury 10 Feb 2021 · 19 min read