The Prescience of Shelby Steele
A great writer shows us how to think rather than telling us what to think.
Samuel Kronen
· 18 min read
BLM
A collection of 54 posts
Radicalized Antiracism on Campus—as Seen from the Computer Lab
The University of Washington, like most schools, tracks the performance of student groups as part of its effort to enhance diversity and reduce inequality.
Stuart Reges
· 15 min read
Black Lives Matter and the Mechanics of Conformity
Left unrestrained, they can get completely out of hand. The sudden conformity produced by an availability cascade can result in reflexive demands for urgent government action without any proper discussion or consideration of trade-offs, consequences, or even necessity.
Matthew Blackwell
· 17 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
· 18 min read
Police Violence and the Rush to Judgment
The time has come for a serious conversation about police brutality, criminal justice reform, and how political polarization prevents progress.
Rav Arora
· 14 min read
Will Corporate Social-Justice Initiatives Be More Than Just a Fad?
What’s different now is that the current strain of social-justice ideology presents itself as a totalizing creed—which means that it isn’t enough for CEOs to accede to the idea of social justice as a mere boundary check on the company’s profit-seeking activities.
David Weitzner
· 9 min read
Exploiting a Woman’s Deadly Fall to Smear Toronto's Police
But instead, progressives such as Singh are far more interested in polluting Twitter with lazy lies and protest applause lines that erase any distinction between policing methods.
Jonathan Kay
· 9 min read
Flannery O'Connor and the Ideological War on Literature
What cancel culture has just mown down isn’t simply Flannery O’Connor or her works, but our ability to view them through any other lens except that of doctrine.
Charlotte Allen
· 13 min read
The Piety of the Impious
The largely ineradicable character of the religious instinct means that it persists, even upon the apparently disenchanted landscapes of modern secular culture.
Scott Buchanan
· 9 min read
Our Oppressive Moment
The Harper’s letter is a declaration intended to resist the poisonous atmosphere suffocating those who don’t enjoy our platforms and profiles.
John McWhorter
· 7 min read
Denunciation Staged as 'Dialogue': A Review of Claudia Rankine's 'Help'
The lines spoken by the white men on stage were excerpted from responses to her Times article.
Nick Comilla
· 8 min read
Policing in the Anomie Era
Over the last 20 years there has been a massive increase in awareness of Indigenous issues in Canada.
Mike Wilson
· 10 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
· 6 min read
Seattle’s Summer of Love
Their goals are not reformist, they are revolutionary—they seek conflict not peace, and they have given scant thought about what they wish to build from the rubble of what they destroy.
Andrew Gleeson
· 8 min read
America Has Problems. Tearing Down Statues Won't Solve Them
To the extent we all care about the important underlying issues, such as fighting racial discrimination and promoting opportunity to all, we shouldn’t allow our culture wars over statues and symbols to dominate our discourse.
Zaid Jilani
· 9 min read