Demystifying Critical Race Theory Activists on both sides have an incentive to keep Critical Race Theory undefined and ambiguous. Josh Yuter 19 Feb 2025 · 18 min read
Virtuous Lies and Black Despair Many leftists claim that black Americans are crushed beneath a vast, racist social machinery. It is hard to imagine a more demoralizing message. Julian Adorney / Jake Mackey 24 Jan 2024 · 10 min read
British and Black Contemporary antiracism imposes an American framework that distorts our understanding of racial issues in different countries. Ralph Leonard 20 Oct 2023 · 12 min read
Critical Race Theory Has a Scholarship Problem For many critical theorists, the true dividing line isn't privileged people versus the oppressed; it's people who agree with them versus those whose motives cannot be trusted. Julian Adorney 13 May 2023 · 7 min read
Critical Race Theory Wasn’t Always Like This The version of CRT that I studied in the 1990s offered a useful critique of American institutions—rather than a moral condemnation of American souls. Jonathan Kay 20 Jun 2022 · 6 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
Radical Moderate: The Struggle for Martin Luther King's Legacy If activists are embarrassed by constitutional norms, religious devotion, and American virtues, then what are the values around which a progressive movement can hope to organise? Robert Showah 27 Apr 2018 · 17 min read
