Race
How to have a happy old age
Gstaad Birthdays at my age are for the birds, but always a good excuse for a party. Messages of…
Will Biden get away with his bad record on race?
If there’s been one hallmark of the Trump campaign’s messaging against Joe Biden, it’s that the former VP is the…
Hyperbole radicalism and the politics of exaggeration
‘All I want for Christmas is White genocide.’ So remarked George Ciccariello-Maher, then professor of politics and global studies at…
What does Kamala Harris really believe?
When Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris as his running mate, the Religion News Service reported that she ‘now considers herself…
The dangers of unconscious bias training
Diversity training doesn’t work
When everything is ‘racist’, nothing is
Hearing that Dawn Butler MP had been pulled over by the Metropolitan police, I briefly hoped the taxpayer might get…
Kamala chameleon
Kamala Harris, the new Democratic vice-presidential nominee, certainly looks the part. Barack Obama once called her ‘the best-looking attorney general…
Should Kamala Harris pay reparations?
What do Stokely Carmichael, Harry Belafonte, Colin Powell, Sidney Poitier and Busta Rhymes have in common? And how are Beyoncé,…
Why are black Americans likelier to die of COVID than Latinos?
Only part of the dramatic racial differences in age-adjusted COVID-19 death rates can be explained by racial differences. The remainder reflects a substantially lower black…
Trump campaign misses the mark with latest Biden attack
Former vice president Joe Biden handed the Trump campaign an interview gaffe for the ages on Wednesday. When asked if…
Open letters have become ransom notes
The ‘open letter’ is enjoying quite the formal renaissance. Curiously, recent examples of this newly popular epistolary genre exhibit striking…
Planned Parenthood finally grapples with Margaret Sanger’s racist past
In a startling departure from its typically dogged defenses, Planned Parenthood admitted through clenched teeth this week what many have…
Silence isn’t violence
In the evenings, when I want to relax, I watch a Russian named Max build a log cabin. Max is,…
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…
The Black Lives Matter movement is re-racialising society
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…
How come the less something is a problem, the more people talk about it?
The less something is a problem, the more people talk about it
What if Oxford PPE graduates on TV were made to wear pink conical hats?
You can’t discuss racial inequality without using the N-word. And you can’t debate social justice without adding the C-word and…
