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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

Anxiety About Immigration is a Global Issue

It is time we started discussing global immigration in a more grown up way in the hope of coming up with a sustainable solution, rather than assuming the worst of each other and resorting to name-calling and selective moral outrage.

Remi Adekoya

1 Jan 2019 · 6 min read

Another Dream Deferred

Michael Shermer

8 Nov 2018 · 6 min read

A Racial Shakedown in Portland

The genre of “white people doing something to black people” is, by now, a well-established media genre that generates easy clicks. But there is also an unsettling subplot that few seem willing to discuss.

Andy Ngo

4 Nov 2018 · 6 min read

White Privilege Is Real, but Well-Meaning White Liberals Are Helping to Perpetuate It

Rather than whites being responsible for the perpetuation of these stereotypes—and, by extension, white privilege—they are maintained by all groups as they interact with each other.

Eric Kaufmann

27 Oct 2018 · 8 min read

The 'Black Chic' Wave

To be a black Democratic candidate in 2018 is to be seen, not just as a politician, but as the next step in the decades-long march towards racial equality.

Coleman Hughes

12 Sep 2018 · 8 min read

Unmaking Affirmative Action

The color question has changed in America and this has implications for the logic of affirmative action.

Stephen T. Asma

27 Jul 2018 · 11 min read

The Fear of White Power

While some black folks are driven to tolerate the excesses of the radical left by a fear of white power, the latter seem largely motivated by envious resentment of it.

Remi Adekoya

8 Jul 2018 · 14 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

Kanye West and the Future of Black Conservatism

When black people are asked what they think about myriad race-related issues, their answers often deviate from liberal orthodoxy.

Coleman Hughes

24 Apr 2018 · 7 min read