Preparations, Not Reparations
If good educational opportunities were there for the taking, the sense of racial injustice in America would be much less.
Eric Silver
· 7 min read
Slavery
A collection of 6 posts
Are We Teaching That Slavery Is Beneficial?
That slaves were able to develop beneficial skills while in bondage is a tribute to the human ability to wrest value and create meaning even under conditions of almost unfathomable duress.
James B. LaGrand
· 4 min read
The Father of Capitalism and the Abolition of Slavery
So in the end, slavery, the slave trade and imperialism were not only morally disgusting but also of dubious economic value.
Matthew Lesh
· 8 min read
PODCAST 83: Professor Wilfred Reilly on his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can't Talk About
Kentucky State political science professor Wilfred Reilly talks to Toby Young about his new book Taboo: 10 Facts You Can’t Talk About. Professor Reilly’s last piece for Quillette was about the 1776 project.
Quillette
· 1 min read
PODCAST 79: Coleman Hughes on the "1776" Project
Quillette columnist Coleman Hughes on why he and some other prominent black intellectuals have created the “1776” project, a response to the New York Times‘s 1619 Project. Quillette recently published an article on the “1776” project by Wilfred Reilly, another of the people involved.
Quillette
· 1 min read
No, Jonathan Haidt is Not Like a Slavery Apologist
The unhinged reasoning in Fairbanks’s essay invites an overcorrection. It would be easy—and tendentious—to reverse her argument. The Left are the real heirs of the proslavery tradition—intolerant aggression disguised as aggrieved fragility, etc.
Adam Rowe
· 6 min read