The Line Between Anti-Racism and Racism Keeps Getting Fainter How an antisemitic bigot named Laith Marouf built a lucrative career as a Canadian government-funded ‘anti-racist’ Jonathan Kay 25 Aug 2022 · 13 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
What is Happening to My Profession? Some of the people who are refusing the life-saving COVID vaccine are alienated from mainstream institutions, which they view as house organs of the political Left rather than trustworthy arbiters of truth. Sally Satel 30 Nov 2021 · 10 min read
Anti-Racism as Office-Politics Power Play: a Canadian Academic Case Study Last week, 53 top Canadian academic administrators convened in Ottawa for a biannual membership meeting of Universities Canada, a group dedicated to “providing university presidents with a unified voice for higher education.” The 89-page meeting agenda, which was leaked to me after the event, makes for an interesting read. The Jonathan Kay 7 Nov 2021 · 8 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
How Real Is Systemic Racism Today? The beauty of “systemic racism” is its air of permanence. John Staddon 25 Jan 2019 · 17 min read