Activists Profiting Off Panic Are Wrong. The World Is Getting Better.
But if they admitted that, they would be out of a job.
But if they admitted that, they would be out of a job.
To Rose Wilder Lane, African Americans' achievements were all the more amazing given their disadvantaged starting point.
To justify his misinformation, the Republican vice presidential candidate cited a report from a woman whose lost cat turned up, very much alive, in her own basement.
Donald Trump's running mate says he is willing to "create stories" if they help call attention to the costs of lax immigration policies.
Ellis Island arrivals maintained close ties to the Old World for generations. Nativists want us to forget that.
Both ideologies are bad. But one is a much greater danger than the other.
Juneteenth celebrates a great American achievement, and a triumph for the nation's Founding principles. Also, the culture war over the holiday is lame, and hopefuly coming to an end.
School officials falsely accused the boys of posing for a photo in blackface.
In the Jim Crow South, businesses fought racism—because the rules denied them customers.
"I am not in the newsroom," the embattled NPR chieftain said over and over again.
The long-time public radio editor's resignation proves he was right all along.
Kristy Kay Money and Rolf Jacob Sraubhaar are now suing the city of San Marcos, Texas, saying they're being forced to keep a Klan-linked symbol on the front of their house is a physical taking.
Our research was cited in a new book on “white rural rage.” But the authors got the research wrong.
She also mistook the Adam in Michelangelo's famous painting for David.
It was integrated, it was unionized—and it was a company town.
"The sole basis for targeting Joe was the race/ethnicity of his wife and her occupation" at an Asian massage parlor, the lawsuit claims.
They should be heard, not shouted down.
Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown of Eatonville, Florida, was one of the first all-black municipalities incorporated in the U.S.
Some Substack writers are pressuring the platform to change its moderation policies. Others are urging Substack not to listen.
Whether a person deserves to be "cancelled" for saying awful things depends on the nature of what they said and the nature of their job.
Reason broke the story of activist Zyahna Bryant baselessly accusing a fellow student of racism. It's still wrong to cancel her.
Is our country getting closer to living out the true meaning of its creed, "All men are created equal"?
Plus: kids and screen time, banks and the FBI, and more...
Plus: Backpage trial pushed back, Bidenomics doens't resonate, and more...
His panicked manifesto contains a strong case against CRT activism, but he ultimately falls into the same trap as his enemies.
Political appointees should have no role in faculty hiring decisions.
If activists want to help young people, they should start before college.
Contra Joe Biden, they argue that these recent rulings show respect for individual rights and concern for racial and sexual minorities.
The article assesses strengths and weaknesses of the Court's decision, and what it will take to implement Chief Justice Roberts' admonition that "[e]liminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it."
Achieving this goal will require a lot more than banning racial preferences in college admissions. That includes some measures that will make the political right uncomfortable, as well as the left.
A new complaint argues that legacy admissions violate the Civil Rights Act.
A collection of links to some of my previous writings on these topics, which I think remain relevant today.
Plus: A listener question on the potential efficacy of congressional term limits.
There is no reason for public universities to grant preferential treatment to the scions of their alumni.
In a 6–3 decision, the Court ruled that race-based affirmative action in college admissions violates the 14th Amendment.
Spiked's leading polemicist defends J.K. Rowling, Brexit, and Enlightenment values of free speech and pluralism.
Ron DeSantis and Mike Pence are wrong to advocate naming a US Army base after an incompetent Confederate general who betrayed the United States to fight for slavery.
Laws against displaying Nazi-esque iconography are well-intended, but they pose a threat to free speech and the principles of a free society.
Freedom's Dominion argues Southern history was animated by "racialized radical anti-statism." The case is lacking.
Her podcast Unreformed: The Story of the Alabama Industrial School for Negro Children delves into abuse at a state-run institution.
Two historians go head-to-head on whether the controversial New York Times project has any value.
Two historians go head-to-head on whether the controversial New York Times project has any value.
"They had a duty to protect her," says Ta'Neasha Chappell's sister. "She was not attended to because she was a Black woman and they didn't feel like she was worth getting any attention."
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