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Preparations, Not Reparations

If good educational opportunities were there for the taking, the sense of racial injustice in America would be much less.

Eric Silver / John Iceland

19 Nov 2023 · 7 min read

The Pretext of Diversity in American Universities

A surfeit of reparations advocates (including Ta-Nehisi Coates) are openly disdainful of the diversity rationale—just not so disdainful as to actually oppose diversity initiatives.

Kenneth R. Pike

6 Jan 2022 · 12 min read

NARRATED: Reparations and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Pyrrhic Victory by Coleman Hughes

Greg Ellis reads Reparations and Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Pyrrhic Victory, Coleman Hughes’s essay about how the cause of reparations got taken up by the front-runners for the Democratic Presidential nomination, thereby proving America isn’t as racist as Coates claims. It was published in Quillette on 17th March 2019.

Quillette

28 Jun 2019 · 1 min read

Quillette Podcast 39 – Coleman Hughes on His Reparations Testimony

Jonathan Kay talks to Coleman Hughes about what it was like testifying to Congress about reparations and the reaction his testimony has received. Coleman wrote an article for Quillette about why he’s opposed to reparations in March of this year.

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

24 Jun 2019 · 1 min read

My Testimony on Reparations

Racism is a bloody stain on this country’s history, and I consider our failure to pay reparations directly to freed slaves after the Civil War to be one of the greatest injustices ever perpetrated by the U.S. government.

Coleman Hughes

20 Jun 2019 · 4 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 · 13 min read