"Classified" Review and Podcast Roundup

My book on racial classification's official publication date was Tuesday, and it's already garnered several reviews and I have appeared on a bunch of podcasts. So if you want to listen in on what all the cool kids are talking about…

Reviews

Review by Goldwater Institute President Tim Sandefur for the Objective Standard 

Review by Prof. Bill Jacobson, Legal Insurrection

Review by Ed Whelan, National Review

Podcasts

The Remnant, with Jonah Goldberg

American Institute for Economic Research

CSPI Podcast with Richard Hanania

Essential Liberty with Bob Zadek

First Things Podcast with Mark Bauerlein

Institutionalized with Charles Lehman and Aaron Sibarium

Washington Outsider Report with Irina Tsukerman

I wish I could tell you I had a favorite, the *one* podcast to listen to, but I have really  been blessed with excellent hosts, who each took the interviews in different directions depending on their interests and the natural flow of conversation.

Comments

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

Will there be any effort to connect with the American mainstream, or is this a clingerverse-only endeavor? Some of your ideas might be able to compete at the marketplace of ideas and constitute a worthwhile addition to mainstream thought.

[Frank Drackman]

Up bright and early at https://www.cor.pa.gov/Facilities/StatePrisons/Pages/Greene.aspx?? "Reverend"??
you used "Mainstream" and "Ideas" twice in one sentence, I shudder to think what that reveals about your Id, Ego, and Super-Ego, Jerry, I mean "Arthur"

Frank

[Frank Drackman]

Does it really require a whole book??? (at least Kramer's "Coffee Table book about Coffee Tables" was just a joke) to explain why in the 21st Century the "One Drop" rule still exists?

[Ed Grinberg]

Because racists are still running things?

[Frank Drackman]

Somnolent/"Cancerous" Joe? sorry, VPOTUS Common-Law Harris-Brown?? you're right. My Bad

[Jordan Brown]

The reviews appear to be from reviewers who are friendly to the ideas presented. It would be interesting to see what opponents say, how they justify the apparently-silly results.

[David Bernstein]

Honestly, I have yet to find anyone who thinks that the current system can be objectively justified, beyond, "we have to have some such system to enforce civil rights laws, undertake affirmative action, etc., and this is what we came up with and any other system likely wouldn't be less arbitrary and may be less so."

[David Bernstein]

"more so"

The other implicit objection is that the only classifications we really care about are white and black/African American, and those are "good enough" and if, e.g., the Asian and Hispanic classification are especially arbitrary and absurd, that's okay, because the entire system is working the way it should, to ensure the black-white divide is recognized, to ensure that the disadvantages faced by the former due to the historical divide are addressed. (One problem with this objection is various government-contracting AA programs intitiated with the primary goal of helping black Americans are now dominated by other minority groups).

[Jordan Brown]

Isn't the current theory that all humans descend from Africa?

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

You're wasting time on the reality-based world. In these parts, everything traces back to Adam and Eve.

[Frank Drackman]

I guess if you buy the "Humans evolving from Monkeys" theory that would be the place.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

The Volokh Conspiracy: Official "Academic" Blog Of Those Who Prefer Superstition To Science (And Believe Evolution Is A Demonic Plot Launched From The Pits Of Hell By Actual Satan).

Carry on, clingers.

[Rev. Arthur L. Kirkland]

The Heritage-Republican-Koch-Federalist Society-Olin-Bradley-Family Assocation-Family Research community excels at exchanging airtime, awards, blurbs, titles, public jobs, resume entries, and other benefits among practitioners of the clinger arts.

[Frank Drackman]

So Jerry, did Joe Paterno smell like Old Sweat Socks, Lucky Strikes, Old Grandad, or a combination of the 3?