Identity Politics Is Doing More Harm Than Good to Minorities
The day is fast approaching when mainstream white society will react to accusations of racism with yawns and shrugs. What will identitarians do then?
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The Infantilisation of Black America
This embarrassing spectacle sometimes resembles an adult who humors a fractious infant just to reassure it that he is an amiable and unthreatening figure.
Unmaking Affirmative Action
The color question has changed in America and this has implications for the logic of affirmative action.
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.
The Radical and the Moderate — Struggling with 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?
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.
Ferguson Effect Detractors Are Wrong
The violence surge continued into fall. Homicides in Baltimore reached their highest per capita rate in the city’s history.