A collection of 25 posts
Gil Troy on how the pro-Palestinian movement has distorted the legacy of civil rights—and the consequences for Zionism and America’s Jewish community.
The animation industry was perhaps the United States’ most potent cultural weapon during World War II.
King’s sophisticated understanding of racism bridges two worldviews: that racism is primarily systemic and as well as interpersonal.
If good educational opportunities were there for the taking, the sense of racial injustice in America would be much less.
Contemporary antiracism imposes an American framework that distorts our understanding of racial issues in different countries.
The world is better than it would have been had we remained isolated from each other—even for Native Americans.
Eight decades later, the issues raised by the Russell case—the rights to free speech and academic freedom—have still not been settled.
That slaves were able to develop beneficial skills while in bondage is a tribute to the human ability to wrest value and create meaning even under conditions of almost unfathomable duress.
Finding ways to coexist is challenging, in part because the better we are at coexisting, the more diversity we attract, and the more diversity we attract, the more difficult it becomes to persuasively accommodate all competing values.
For Kagan, the architects of the post-war order sought to wed America’s new-found superpower to the construction of a world order that reflected the domestic values of America itself: a liberal international order.