A collection of 55 posts
The Cofnas and Arday controversies show that on matters of race, administrators at Cambridge have failed to conduct deliberate checks, failed in probity, and failed in their tolerance for unsettled science.
Nathan Cofnas joins a historical line of academics demonised for delivering unwelcome or upsetting news about group differences.
Outrage over a black Helen of Troy misunderstands the long Western tradition of radically reinventing classical myths.
Tragicomic scenes from reparations-based medicine.
Rare is the word that has antithetical meanings depending on the speaker and listener, the intent and reception. This is one such rarity.
Richard Bernstein’s new book about Al Jolson and ‘The Jazz Singer’ offers a thoughtful reconsideration of an unfairly reviled cultural landmark.
Skin colour, genetics, race, and racism.
Trump’s reelection reflects the final exhaustion of the post-World War II liberal and conservative cultural consensuses.
The politicisation of medicine has had terrible unintended consequences.
A tenured scholar has paid a high price for bluntly expressing uncomfortable truths.
A cancelled academic has produced a fine new book about the threat posed by progressive pieties.
Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man.
Directing physicians to treat their patients as racial statistics rather than an individuals is a grievous misdirection of their skills.
This cock-up was not caused by a bug that went unnoticed; it was deliberately engineered.
The accepted view is that the scientists of the European Enlightenment got the issue of race badly wrong. In fact, some of them got more right than they are usually given credit for.