Victimhood or Development?
It’s a very interesting development in the black community and it’s a race to break that ugly symbiosis between white guilt and black development.
Identity
A collection of 156 posts
Liberalism—Decline or Survival
It would be a mistake to conflate “adaptive” with “good.” But similarly, it is a mistake to conflate “good” with “sustainable.”
Sam Ashworth-Hayes
· 6 min read
Workers vs. Wokeness at Smith College: Campus Social Justice as a Luxury Good
For poor black people who live genuinely marginalized lives, and who will never set foot on a campus like Oberlin, racism is a real evil that affects their lives.
Jonathan Kay
· 17 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
· 9 min read
Towards Shared Identities
Fighting identities is the true meaning of the culture wars.
Seth Chalmer
· 8 min read
Gender Activists Are Trying to Cancel My Book. Why is Silicon Valley Helping Them?
This is what censorship looks like in 21st-century America.
Abigail Shrier
· 9 min read
Podcast #121: The Inconvenient Truth About Donald Trump’s Non-White Supporters
A conversation with Jamil Jivani.
Quillette
· 1 min read
R.M. Vaughan (1965–2020): A Beautiful Mind Silently Extinguished in a Time of Fear
We were Oscar Wilde’s great-grand-nephews, dandy aesthetes obsessed as much with the curl of our hair as with art or politics.
Sky Gilbert
· 8 min read
For Five Months, BLM Protestors Trashed America's Cities. After the Election, Things May Only Get Worse
Common themes in the emerging constellation of radical groups include apocalyptic beliefs, a “utopian” political agenda, martyr narratives, and a cell-based organizational structure.
Mike Gonzalez
· 9 min read
The Search for a Politics of Community
What’s now being sought is a system in which power is exercised by representatives of those who constitute a majority.
John Lloyd
· 13 min read
What We Owe to ‘The Boys in the Band’—and Other Classics of Gay Film
I’m grateful to every straight director, actor, and writer who has taken up the cause over the last 60 years, and to their closeted friends and colleagues who inspired them.
Allan Stratton
· 15 min read
From “Who Gets What?” to “Who Are We?”
The culture wars revolve around highly charged, deeply personal issues that are exceedingly difficult to compromise upon.
Jonathon P. Sine
· 15 min read
Antiracism, Anti-Semitism, and the False Problem of Jewish Success
There’s no such thing as too many Jews among the “faces of power.”
Daniel Friedman
· 15 min read
Elder Millennial Metalheads: Our Shrinking World of Dark Thoughts and Bad Jobs
We are a generation of smart, strong, caring, conscientious men, full of kinetic energy that I now see dispersed through alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, anxiety, violence, and death.
Matthew Amos
· 8 min read
The Dead Are Rising—A Review
The Dead are Arising offers similarly interesting insights into Malcolm X’s adolescence and adult life.
Clayton Trutor
· 7 min read