Why Culture Matters for Racial Disparities It has become virtually axiomatic among progressives that any factor invoked to explain racial disparities which is not “structural” reflects a racist belief. Jonathan Church 7 Sep 2021 · 19 min read
Robin DiAngelo’s Misreading of Michel Foucault It should not be controversial to say that knowledge can be exploited by dominant vested interests. Jonathan Church 25 Nov 2020 · 5 min read
The Truth According to Social Justice—A Review of 'Cynical Theories' The book explains a half-century arc of intellectual history culminating in our current state of histrionic overreach in the name of social justice. Jonathan Church 20 Jul 2020 · 8 min read
Don't Blame Neoliberalism for 'Postmodern Conservatism' The tides of history ebb and flow, along with doctrines such as neoliberalism, modernism, postmodernism, and whatever it is that follows postmodernism. Jonathan Church 23 Feb 2020 · 6 min read
Lee Jussim Is Right to Be Skeptical about 'Stereotype Threat' Di Angelo’s writing about stereotype threat, white fragility, structural oppression and so on, on the other hand, is more like dogma than scientific theory. Jonathan Church 22 Feb 2020 · 6 min read
Why We Should Read Machiavelli Machiavelli focused his analysis of power not on ideals, but on the feasible. In affairs of state, virtue was a matter of efficacy, not piety. Jonathan Church 1 Jun 2019 · 8 min read
The Economic Illiteracy of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez It is hard to emphasize how chillingly inept this remark is, especially for someone with a degree in economics. Jonathan Church 22 Mar 2019 · 10 min read
How My Toxic Stoicism Helped Me Cope with Brain Cancer One of my sisters commented that I was so calm she thought the doctors must have given me a Valium. Jonathan Church 23 Jan 2019 · 12 min read
Thirty Years After 'The Closing of the American Mind' Relativism, Bloom claimed, “is not a theoretical insight but a moral postulate, the condition of a free society, or so they see it. Jonathan Church 28 Nov 2018 · 5 min read
The Problem with ‘White Fragility’ Theory The suggestion that a viewpoint comes from a “racialized frame of reference” is, in fact, an expression of doubt about my ability to be objective. Jonathan Church 24 Aug 2018 · 10 min read
