Totems and Taboos A cancelled academic has produced a fine new book about the threat posed by progressive pieties. John Lloyd 6 Aug 2024 · 9 min read
Sin and Social Science Glenn Loury’s startlingly frank confessional memoir offers a complex portrait of a brilliant scholar and a profoundly flawed man. John Lloyd 24 Jun 2024 · 14 min read
From Caregivers to Social Reformers Directing physicians to treat their patients as racial statistics rather than an individuals is a grievous misdirection of their skills. Ronald A. Lindsay 13 May 2024 · 12 min read
Google and the Gemini Debacle This cock-up was not caused by a bug that went unnoticed; it was deliberately engineered. Toadworrier 18 Mar 2024 · 9 min read
Johann Blumenbach: The First Race Scientist 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. Coel Hellier 13 Mar 2024 · 13 min read
A Revolution on Race? With ‘The End of Race Politics,’ Coleman Hughes enters the ranks of the most mature and sophisticated analysts of the all-American skin game. Brian Stewart 21 Feb 2024 · 8 min read
The Optimistic Space Between Black and White Reflecting on "The Case for Black Optimism" by Coleman Hughes Megan Gafford 3 Feb 2024 · 6 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
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 · 14 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
‘A Dream Deferred’ Revisited Shelby Steele’s masterful second book invites black America to reject redemptive liberalism and the helplessness it demands for a humanistic politics of advancement. Samuel Kronen 22 Aug 2023 · 17 min read
Glenn Loury and the Great Partisan Divide Loury’s scholarship deserves particular attention because he has grappled with the issue of racial inequality from both sides of the structure-agency debate. Aaron Hanna 13 Apr 2023 · 25 min read
Race and State The emerging racial state promises no real progress for most minorities while deepening ethnic divides and undermining the basis for democratic self-rule. Joel Kotkin 3 Apr 2023 · 14 min read
More Than Just a Social Construct The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them. Robert J. Morris 8 Jan 2023 · 9 min read
Noble Intentions, Counterproductive Results: The Tragic Inefficacy of a Deontological Policy Approach The blood shed for this right matters little to certain factions of the contemporary Left. Scott Newman 26 Nov 2021 · 9 min read