Anti-Racism - Quillette

Rediscovering the Meaning of Diversity: Lessons from Generation X

Gen X is young enough to take civil rights and integration for granted—but old enough to appreciate how much progress America has made

Monica Harris

28 Feb 2024 · 10 min read

New Details in the Tragic Case of Toronto Educator Richard Bilkszto

A Freedom-of-Information request sheds light on the Toronto District School Board’s ‘abusive, egregious and vexatious’ anti-racism trainer.

Jonathan Kay

24 Jan 2024 · 7 min read

Martin Luther King’s Understanding of Racism

King’s sophisticated understanding of racism bridges two worldviews: that racism is primarily systemic and as well as interpersonal.

John R. Wood, Jr.

15 Jan 2024 · 13 min read

An Egregious Misreading of History

In his first book, Philip Ewell employs mistranslations and deceptively edited quotations to defame Viennese-Jewish music theorist Heinrich Schenker.

Barry Wiener

7 Jun 2023 · 16 min read

An Immigrant’s Ode to Canada

A survivor of Sri Lanka’s civil war who found safety and wealth on Canadian shores wonders why his well-to-do white neighbours seem so fixated on racism.

Roy Ratnavel

18 May 2023 · 11 min read

The Line Between Anti-Racism and Racism Keeps Getting Fainter

How an antisemitic bigot named Laith Marouf built a lucrative career as a Canadian government-funded ‘anti-racist’

Jonathan Kay

25 Aug 2022 · 12 min read

Walkout at Milton Academy

When high-school students can’t tolerate hearing the name of a book title, we know there’s a problem in education.

Randall Kennedy and Harvey Silverglate

8 Aug 2022 · 3 min read

Equity Concerns Lead to a Mass-Firing of Museum Volunteers

The firing of the AIC docents was only possible because unpaid staffers are not covered by its provisions, and the MMA was able to circumvent equal opportunity requirements by exclusively recruiting from local black colleges.

Robert Cherry

15 Nov 2021 · 7 min read

Anti-Racism as Office-Politics Power Play: a Canadian Academic Case Study

Last week, 53 top Canadian academic administrators convened in Ottawa for a biannual membership meeting of Universities Canada [https://www.univcan.ca/], a group dedicated to “providing university presidents with a unified voice for higher education.” The 89-page meeting agenda, which was leaked to me after the event, makes for

Jonathan Kay

7 Nov 2021 · 8 min read

Injecting Anti-Racism Activism Into the Adoption Process Won’t Help Black Children

More than anything, it was a deep sensitivity to our kids’ unique life histories as individuals—rather than to generalized considerations of group identity—that enabled us to grow together as a newly blended family.

David K. Ryden

23 Oct 2021 · 13 min read

Guns, Germs, and Steel is a Powerful Anti-Racist Book. So Why Doesn’t the Left Love It?

In the aftermath of the Holocaust and the atrocities committed by European empires, the Western world awoke to the horrors that humans are capable of committing against those they perceived to be inferior.

Jerry Barnett

3 Oct 2021 · 14 min read

Inflammatory Anti-Racism

The fear of being branded with one of the most deadly contemporary sins has generally ensured a pusillanimous collapse by corporations, institutions, and individuals.