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.
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Watching My Great Nation Lapse Into a Cult of Self-Abasement
I wasn’t a patriot until it had all gone; then I would have sold my soul to buy it back. ~Tanya, in Malcolm Bradbury’s Eating People Is Wrong For more than 20 years, from the mid-’70s to the late-’90s, Morningside, a three-hour daily broadcast that
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
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.
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.
PODCAST 102: Rob Henderson on Why Upper Middle Class Whites Have Gone Woke
Listen onSpotify Quillette contributor and Cambridge PhD student Rob Henderson on how cancel culture became one of America’s most successful exports and why upper middle class whites have embraced the woke agenda. (Click here to listen to the podcast.) Rob recently wrote a piece for Quillette entitled America Exports
PODCAST 94: Professor Glenn Loury on Racial Unrest in America
Listen onSpotify Glenn Loury, a professor of economics at Brown University, talks to Jonathan Kay about the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd. Professor Loury recently published a piece about this in Quillette entitled Condemn the Violence Without Equivocation.
Do COVID-19 Racial Disparities Matter?
If anyone bothers to look, there will probably be disparities between Catholics and Protestants.
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.
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.
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.
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.