Race
Will black voters abandon the Democrats in 2024?
Joe Biden owes his nomination to black Democrats, who never joined the revolution led by Sen. Bernie Sanders, closed ranks…
Is this the sanest debate on race yet?
The race debate is rapidly descending into a one-note diatribe where white accountability has become the only game in town.…
We’re making a spectacle of shame
When I was about ten, on return home from church I ate a peach, the juice of which dribbled down…
Can the republic survive?
‘A republic, if you can keep it.’ That was Ben Franklin’s famous response when asked, as the Constitutional Convention ended…
False colours
Do we really want to re-racialise society?
Don’t play a game you can’t win
Of all the people who have made cash in the past month, few can have raked it in like Robin…
The neoliberal counter-revolution
America is not in the middle of a revolution — it is a reactionary putsch. About four years ago, the…
Trump’s African American ‘silent minority’ could swing the election
Donald Trump’s efforts to broaden his appeal to the African American community are bearing fruit. Rasmussen polling noted in early…
The poison of reparations
Reparations are a recipe for rancor. Under the guise of settling a grievance, they intensify and often eternalize it. They…
It’s not about Woodrow Wilson. It’s about indoctrination
On November 18, 2015, a group of Princeton University undergraduates calling themselves the Black Justice League, or BJL, invaded historic…
The controversy paradox
The less something is a problem, the more people talk about it
Network failures
You can’t discuss racial inequality without using the N-word. And you can’t debate social justice without adding the C-word and…
Political pandering won’t prevent Covid deaths
When the media have gone large on the conclusions of an overpoweringly tedious report, one of the biggest favours a…
Cop out
To save black lives, top brass must face reality
Do we erase Black history when we take down statues?
The Summer Of Our Discontent is in full swing and the social guillotines — at first applied to legitimate injustice…
NASCAR gets its own Jussie Smollett
NASCAR fans breathed a collective sigh of relief two weeks ago when the sport singlehandedly stopped racism dead in its…
The new inequality
It is a strange habit, the American one of making talk-show hosts into preachers. There is no good reason, after…
Self-righteous vandals
Violent left-wing activists have taken to styling themselves as antifa, short for ‘anti-fascists’, though their street-fighting tactics resemble nothing so…
Marching against racism is too easy
When I first saw the footage of George Floyd being asphyxiated by a policeman’s knee on his throat, my reaction…
Gaslight
Gaslight has been a useful word meaning ‘to manipulate a person by psychological means into questioning his or her own…
I will not be silent
After the horrible death of George Floyd in Minneapolis, I started to grow increasingly uncomfortable by what I saw. I…
Black mass: the Georgetown Lecture Fund’s odd diversity campaign
The New York Times’s opinion editor resigned in disgrace earlier this month following a newsroom revolt over the publication of…
What anti-racism really means and how to talk about it
How do you navigate conversations with people when the default assumption is that you’re a racist? What do you do…
Marching against racism is too easy
When I first saw the footage of George Floyd being asphyxiated by a policeman’s knee on his throat, my reaction…
The truth about America’s police culture
America can often look, to outsiders, like a country of two warring tribes: the Trumpish anti-PC brigade vs the woke…
