A collection of 18 posts
Gen X is young enough to take civil rights and integration for granted—but old enough to appreciate how much progress America has made
A Freedom-of-Information request sheds light on the Toronto District School Board’s ‘abusive, egregious and vexatious’ anti-racism trainer.
King’s sophisticated understanding of racism bridges two worldviews: that racism is primarily systemic and as well as interpersonal.
In his first book, Philip Ewell employs mistranslations and deceptively edited quotations to defame Viennese-Jewish music theorist Heinrich Schenker.
A survivor of Sri Lanka’s civil war who found safety and wealth on Canadian shores wonders why his well-to-do white neighbours seem so fixated on racism.
How an antisemitic bigot named Laith Marouf built a lucrative career as a Canadian government-funded ‘anti-racist’
When high-school students can’t tolerate hearing the name of a book title, we know there’s a problem in education.
The firing of the AIC docents was only possible because unpaid staffers are not covered by its provisions, and the MMA was able to circumvent equal opportunity requirements by exclusively recruiting from local black colleges.
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
More than anything, it was a deep sensitivity to our kids’ unique life histories as individuals—rather than to generalized considerations of group identity—that enabled us to grow together as a newly blended family.
In the aftermath of the Holocaust and the atrocities committed by European empires, the Western world awoke to the horrors that humans are capable of committing against those they perceived to be inferior.
The fear of being branded with one of the most deadly contemporary sins has generally ensured a pusillanimous collapse by corporations, institutions, and individuals.
Just as we can teach children multiplication facts, we assume we can teach them the attitudes to the world that we want them to have.
Another reason that many liberals have increasingly rejected incrementalism is that racial disparities appear to be unchanged.
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.