Government Caused Housing Segregation. Do We Need More Government to Fix the Problem?
The Manhattan Institute's Howard Husock debates Economic Policy Institute's Richard Rothstein at the Soho Forum.
Racism
Can We Just Light Twitter on Fire After This Past Weekend?: Podcast
Covingtongate, Buzzfeed's bomb, Baby Hitler, Kamalamentum…maybe it's time to pull the plug.
If You Still Think Nick Sandmann's Smile Is Proof of Racism, You're Seeing What You Want to See
Some are incapable of viewing the MAGA-hat-wearing teens from Covington Catholic as anything other than pure evil.
The Media Wildly Mischaracterized That Video of Covington Catholic Students Confronting a Native American Veteran
Journalists who uncritically accepted Nathan Phillips' story got this completely wrong.
Steve King's White Nationalism Is Deeply Un-American
The Iowa congressman and his nativism are deeply at odds with the essential promise of America.
Government Policy Created Housing Segregation. So Should Government Be Required To Fix It?: Debate
The next Reason/Soho Forum, in New York on January 14, pits Richard Rothstein vs. Howard Husock on how to correct a historic wrong.
Minneapolis Cops Find a Way to Make a Christmas Tree Racist
The most bigoted tree in Minnesota?
Has Anti-Racism Become as Harmful as Racism? John McWhorter vs. Nikhil Singh
Watch the Oxford-style debate hosted by the Soho Forum.
Debate: 'The Message of Anti-Racism Has Become as Harmful a Force in American Life as Racism Itself'
A live Reason/Soho Forum debate featuring John McWhorter and Nikhil Singh in New York on Wednesday, November 14
Does Living Constitutionalism Lead to "Dying Constitutionalism"?
Living constitutionalists argue that their methodology allows us to improve constitutional law over time. But what if it actually makes it worse? Legal scholar Ernest Young raises that very question in an important new article.
Massachusetts Cop Charged With Kicking Latino Teen, Spitting on Him, Saying: 'Welcome to the White Man's World'
The officer was caught on video threatening to plant a "kilo of coke" in another teen's pocket.
Is the Word 'Marijuana' Racist?
During a forum at a high school, a Rhode Island candidate for attorney general compared the term to an extreme racial epithet and called it "a curse to my people."
Report: N.J. Sheriff Caught on Tape Slamming Black People for Smoking Weed
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy says if the report is true, the sheriff "must resign."
Virginia Republican Announces Senate Campaign to Protest Corey Stewart
"If you surround yourself with white supremacists and Nazis, then you're telling me that you're one of them," Winsome Sears tells Reason.
The Alt-Right Loves H.L. Mencken. The Feeling Would Not Have Been Mutual.
Happy birthday to the Sage of Baltimore, who would never have tolerated his white nationalist fanboys.
Fortnite Probably Won't Make Your Child a Neo-Nazi
But that's the story major news sites used.
A Black Male Student Says a White Woman Bit, Choked, and Pinned Him While They Were Kissing. Guess Who Got Suspended?
A judge sides with a Brown University student who says the Title IX process was unfair and discriminatory.
Rutgers Can Criticize a White Professor for Anti-White Racism, But Punishing Him Would Violate Free Speech
"Okay, officially, I now hate white people" is a gross statement that deserves First Amendment protection.
Decades after Brown v. Board of Education, Choice Finally Integrated Schools in Alabama's Poorest County
Opponents of charter schools often claim that school choice will segregate K-12 education. Sumter County, Alabama proves them wrong.
Is It Racist to Refer to Space 'Colonization'?
The language police have come for the space geeks.
We Are in the Midst of the Third Bogus 'White Extinction' Panic in Just as Many Centuries
Anti-immigrant fearmongers of demographic doom proved wrong in the 19th and 20th centuries, and today's will be no different.
Is 23andMe's 'Root for Your Roots' World Cup Promotion Racist?
A bioethicist argues that the genetic testing company is fostering pseudoscientific bigotry by urging customers to pick a soccer team based on their ancestry.
Is Roseanne Barr's Firing a Sign of Persistent Racism or Racial Progress?
It's mostly a sign of progress, especially when paired with policy reforms that are helping African Americans.
Roseanne's Racist Tweet Leads Almost Immediately to Show's Cancellation
The show navigated a fascinating complicated world of ideological diversity. Its star was not so adept.
When the Censors Came for Jack Johnson's Fight Films
Friday A/V Club: The boxer who just got a posthumous presidential pardon was a central figure in one of the first battles over movie censorship.
Georgetown Students Host Community Dialogue on Racism, Ask White Allies Not to Attend
"For the safety of students of color"
Southern Poverty Law Center Calls Cinco de Mayo Festivities 'Textbook Cultural Appropriation'
"Mexican culture cannot be reduced to tacos, oversized sombreros and piñatas." True, but those shouldn't be off-limits either.
Kmele Foster's Sympathy for Joy-Ann Reid and Disinterest in Kanye's Politics
Latest Fifth Column also features qualified Matt Welch defense of Rand Paul's Pompeo flip, plus a cautionary tale about a racist chew-toy.
Starbucks Will Host Anti-Racist Training Session at 8,000 Stores
But don't expect it to fix whatever happened in Philadelphia last week.
CUNY Students Tried to Shout Down Josh Blackman. Here's Why They Failed.
"We're not children! You can't talk to us like that!"
The Inconvenient Individualism of Frederick Douglass
A bizarre New York Times piece knocks down a strawman.
The New York Times Is Now a Nazi Paper. Wait, What?
If everything problematic is evil, silencing and punishing everything problematic becomes a social necessity.
Fear of Mexicans, Not Blacks, Led Kansas to Ban Marijuana
Defending pot prohibition, a state legislator picks on the wrong minority group.
Hate Crimes in 2016: New FBI Numbers Show Little Change
The data should help dispel fears of a Trump-induced surge in American hate crimes.
Feds Crack Down on New National Security Threat: Unlicensed Massages
Massage-parlor panic is crushing small businesses, civil liberties, and people's lives. Here are eight examples from October.
Just How Much Did Nancy MacLean Get Wrong?
Despite being a finalist for the National Book Awards, Democracy in Chains is fatally flawed history.
Updated! Depicting Native Americans as Bloodthirsty Savages on Columbus Day
If you've ever wondered why conservatives struggle to win support among racial and ethnic minorities, here's part of the answer.
Before Calling People Racist or Politically Correct, Let's Remember That Law Enforcement Has Conflicting Definitions of the Word 'Terrorism'
Reluctance to use the T-word after mass killings can be routinely found whether perpetrators are white or brown.
Libertarian History/Philosophy
Smith Students Get Lecture on Libertarian Connection to 'Traditional Bigotry'
What? Libertarianism is an intellectual and political tradition with roots in radical equality movements.
The Great James Buchanan Conspiracy
A controversial attack on a libertarian-leaning economist mangles the facts beyond recognition. But the book still has something to teach us.
We Need to Talk About Black Students Being Accused of Rape Under Title IX
What to make of the fact that students of color are far more likely to be accused of sexual misconduct?
Western Civilization Holdout Reed College Under Activist Student Attack
The Reedies Against Racism think a Greek philosophy and literature course is an attack on them.
