A collection of 43 posts
Shelby Steele’s masterful second book invites black America to reject redemptive liberalism and the helplessness it demands for a humanistic politics of advancement.
Loury’s scholarship deserves particular attention because he has grappled with the issue of racial inequality from both sides of the structure-agency debate.
The emerging racial state promises no real progress for most minorities while deepening ethnic divides and undermining the basis for democratic self-rule.
The fiction that race has no biological basis is more likely to exacerbate health disparities than narrow them.
The blood shed for this right matters little to certain factions of the contemporary Left.
A review of Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy by Batya Ungar-Sargon. Encounter, 312 pages. (October 2021) In Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy, Batya Ungar-Sargon, the deputy opinion editor of Newsweek (where, full disclosure, she has published two of my essays), argues that elite left-wing
The incident, along with constant broadcasting of that disturbing footage by the media, set off a firestorm of protests and riots and a national dialogue—monologue, really—about race and policing.
It has become virtually axiomatic among progressives that any factor invoked to explain racial disparities which is not “structural” reflects a racist belief.
If anyone bothers to look, there will probably be disparities between Catholics and Protestants.
Moving beyond the populist moment would provide space for a more honest and necessary conversation about questions relating to white identity.
One reason might be that they worry about the second kind of harm that accompanies gentrification: the changing culture and character of neighborhoods.
The enormous level of immigration to the United States has actually done little to change the overall demographics of the country over the past 20 years.
If the FBI tapes and transcripts are made public in 2027, we will need responsible historians to use them responsibly. They can’t be ignored, nor can the allegation that is now rocking the foundations of King’s moral legacy.
It is reasonably entertaining to read, and does make some valid points about the misuse of “race science.” Unfortunately, it is also tendentious, dogmatic, and seriously misleading about the current state of scientific knowledge.
At bottom, the reparations debate is a debate about the relationship between history and ethics, between the past and the Good.