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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

Bad News—A Review

A review of Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy by Batya Ungar-Sargon. Encounter, 312 pages. (October 2021) In Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Batya Ungar-Sargon, the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek (where, full disclosure, she has published two of my essays), argues that elite left-wing

Kevin Mims

25 Oct 2021 · 20 min read

George Floyd and the Rise of the Rival Constitution

The incident, along with constant broadcasting of that disturbing footage by the media, set off a firestorm of protests and riots and a national dialogue—monologue, really—about race and policing.

Craig Trainor

17 Sep 2021 · 14 min read

Why Culture Matters for Racial Disparities

It has become virtually axiomatic among progressives that any factor invoked to explain racial disparities which is not “structural” reflects a racist belief.

Jonathan Church

7 Sep 2021 · 19 min read

Do COVID-19 Racial Disparities Matter?

If anyone bothers to look, there will probably be disparities between Catholics and Protestants.

Coleman Hughes

13 Apr 2020 · 5 min read

Arresting the White Backlash

Moving beyond the populist moment would provide space for a more honest and necessary conversation about questions relating to white identity.

Samuel Kronen

18 Dec 2019 · 9 min read

Why Do Progressives Hate Gentrification?

One reason might be that they worry about the second kind of harm that accompanies gentrification: the changing culture and character of neighborhoods.

Coleman Hughes

25 Nov 2019 · 7 min read

Immigration Is Changing America Less than You Think

The enormous level of immigration to the United States has actually done little to change the overall demographics of the country over the past 20 years.

John A. Litwinski

24 Jul 2019 · 6 min read

Say It Ain’t So, Doc: How Should Martin Luther King Scholars Deal With the Rape Story?

If the FBI tapes and transcripts are made public in 2027, we will need responsible historians to use them responsibly. They can’t be ignored, nor can the allegation that is now rocking the foundations of King’s moral legacy.

Stephen Smith

28 Jun 2019 · 6 min read

Superior: The Return of Race Science—A Review

It is reasonably entertaining to read, and does make some valid points about the misuse of “race science.” Unfortunately, it is also tendentious, dogmatic, and seriously misleading about the current state of scientific knowledge.

Bo Winegard and Noah Carl

5 Jun 2019 · 21 min read

Reparations and Ta-Nehisi Coates's Pyrrhic Victory

At bottom, the reparations debate is a debate about the relationship between history and ethics, between the past and the Good.

Coleman Hughes

17 Mar 2019 · 14 min read

Why Do People Tell Me I’m Not Allowed to Write?

The issue was that when a white playwright’s work was produced, casting directors were assuming that they should cast white actors. We were all aghast.

Libby Emmons

1 Feb 2019 · 10 min read

The White Privilege of Being Black

The sad reality is that Martin had no choice but to burble bromides if she wished to remain a member of her progressive intellectual clique.

Allen Farrington

24 Jan 2019 · 7 min read

Anatomist of Racial Inequality: An Interview with Glenn Loury

Loury has taught at Brown University for over a decade, an institution where pleas for American patriotism are likely to be summarily dismissed. So why does he insist on making them?

Christian Alejandro Gonzalez

22 Jan 2019 · 14 min read

To Honor Murder Victims, Stop Fixating on the Race of Their Killers

In my experience, social-media-driven activists have been driven more to hate villains than to love and honor their victims. And the most hated villain is white supremacy.

Zaid Jilani

14 Jan 2019 · 7 min read