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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 · 26 min read

The Black Panthers march in New York City in protest of the trial of co-founder Huey P. Newton.

The Strange Rehabilitation of the Black Panther Party

Isn’t it a little late for the rehabilitation of the Black Panther Party (BPP)? After all, the organization that first caught the public’s attention in 1969 was already in its death throes by the early 1970s, beset by internal splits, criminal prosecutions, and violent faction-fighting. Yet, five decades

Ronald Radosh

13 Jul 2021 · 18 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 · 12 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 · 18 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?

Minutes before Derek Chauvin was convicted on all three counts of murder and manslaughter, Ma’Khia Bryant, a black teenage girl in Columbus, Ohio, was shot dead by police. Almost immediately, enraged protestors gathered outside police headquarters. “Say Her Name!” they chanted. The New York Times reported that the girl’

Arthur Jeon

30 Apr 2021 · 14 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 · 8 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.