racism - Quillette

A middle-aged man on stage in blackface, wearing a suit. Black and white image.

Mammy Dearest

Richard Bernstein’s new book about Al Jolson and ‘The Jazz Singer’ offers a thoughtful reconsideration of an unfairly reviled cultural landmark.

Graham Daseler

6 Feb 2025 · 14 min read

Brainwashing and Blood Feuds

The Communist Party bears responsibility for the outbursts of Chinese hatred against Japan and its citizens.

Aaron Sarin

18 Nov 2024 · 9 min read

Why Did Harvard University Go After One of Its Best Black Professors?

Roland Fryer Jr.’s life is a movie script: A man abandoned by his mom and raised by an alcoholic dad became the youngest black professor to ever secure tenure at Harvard University. After ascending to the academic elite, Fryer didn’t resign himself to irrelevant technical puzzles; he put

Rob Montz

15 Apr 2022 · 10 min read

Studying the Link Between Race and Police Killings

Since the Ferguson, Missouri protests of 2014, the issue of how race and police violence interact has consistently been a front-page news item in the United States. Recent weeks have seen the criminal conviction of three Minneapolis police officers who failed to stop the murder of George Floyd in May

Robert VerBruggen

8 Apr 2022 · 8 min read

‘Woke Racism’—A Review

How will dropping to one’s knees and admitting one’s privilege end the mass incarceration of black Americans caused by the disastrous failure of the War on Drugs?

Jared Marcel Pollen

26 Oct 2021 · 12 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

Standing on the Shoulders of Ogres

The aim of antenatal screening is to discourage the birth of people with severe disabilities.

Sean Welsh

16 Mar 2021 · 10 min read

Does Racism Explain Black Disadvantage?

Empirically testing the hypothesis that racism accounts for most or all of black disadvantage poses enormous challenges.

G. E. Zuriff

15 Nov 2020 · 9 min read

Lessons of the Pinker Affair: The Problem with the Academy is False Beliefs, Not Intolerance

The correct response to the cancellers is not simply to say that they should respect free speech. Rather, one must say to them that you are attacking people for stating things which are true, while you are stating things which are false.

Richard Hanania

16 Sep 2020 · 7 min read

Anti-Racist Structuralists and Non-Racist Culturalists

Kendi's view of racism does not begin with people, but with inequity. Which means anti-racism should more truthfully be called anti-racial inequity.

G. Thomas Burgess

13 Sep 2020 · 18 min read

Princeton University is One of the Least Racist Institutions in the World

In his declaration of independence published in Quillette, Katz, a chaired professor in the Classics department, defends the importance of free speech in academia and accuses the authors of the letter of trying to impose unreasonable changes at Princeton.

Sergiu Klainerman

27 Jul 2020 · 6 min read

PODCAST 98: Physicist Lawrence Krauss on Why Identity Politics Should be Kept Out of Science

Renowned physicist Lawrence Krauss talks to Jonathan Kay about his Quillette essay Racism Is Real. But Science Isn’t the Problem and explains why he expressed skepticism about the sincerity of the #strike4blacklives campaign supported by so many science organisations.

Quillette / Lawrence M. Krauss

4 Jul 2020 · 1 min read

White Saviors Need to Leave the Room

We need to have a discussion about racism—including a discussion about what that word means.

Rukhsana Sukhan

17 Jun 2020 · 6 min read

PODCAST 95: Joel Kotkin on the Pandemic and its Riotous Aftermath

Joel Kotkin, executive director of the Urban Reform Institute and author of The Coming of Neo-Feudalism, talks to Toby Young about the effect of the coronavirus pandemic on American cities and the rioting that broke out following the death of George Floyd. Joel recently wrote about this in a piece

Quillette / Joel Kotkin

14 Jun 2020 · 1 min read

The Misguided Moral Panic About Racism in British Universities

The scope of individual autonomy is rapidly being eroded by measures designed to engineer an inclusive society.

Wanjiru Njoya and Doug Stokes

9 Feb 2020 · 19 min read