By Stephen Gutowski John Keys became one of the millions of Americans to buy their first gun in March 2020. As an African American, he was part of the fastest-growing demographic to do so. “Right at the height of all of the craziness is when I bought my […]
The public and pundits alike are still processing the most recent election, but this much we know: 2020 marks the most diverse Congress in American history, and President Trump garnered more minority voters in 2020 than in 2016. As Georgia faces two runoff elections, which will determine which […]
08:45 Public sentiment and punitive policy on crime 18:02 Glenn and Adaner on crime in America vs. Northern Europe 20:58 Democracy’s effect on criminal justice policy 24:29 Does the “New Jim Crow” cause higher incarceration? 31:33 Glenn puts on the hat of a Trump voter on crime and […]
If advocates of “wokeness,” “critical race theory,” and “anti-racism” seem to be acting like religious zealots who must crush all heretics, that’s because they are, argued Columbia University linguist John McWhorter at a 2018 debate at the Soho Forum. “Anti-racism as currently configured has gone a long way […]
Abolishing qualified immunity is spot on. American Civil Liberties Union The murder of George Floyd last year was another wake-up call for many Americans about racism in policing. It was also a reminder that past efforts to address racist police practices have failed repeatedly. At the time of […]
“Whiteness is a public health crisis. It shortens life expediencies, it pollutes air, it constricts equilibrium, it devastates forests, it melts ice caps, it sparks (and funds) wars, it flattens dialects, it infests consciousnesses, and it kills people . . . ” —Damon Young, New York Times contributor […]
By K. Lloyd Billingsley, Independent Institute “Certain San Francisco artists may receive $1,000 a month under a new city program, the latest in a series of universal basic income initiatives cropping up in cities across California,” writes Faith Pinho of msn.com. Anybody eager for the extra $1000 might […]
Black Agenda Report “The principles of anarchism appear to be growing in some corners of the Black community,” due largely to the work and thought of former Black Panther Lorenzo Kom’boa Ervin. In our opening post, the Black Agenda Review described its objective to provide a longer historical and more explicitly […]
A reader writes: Keith, I know you’ve linked to Jimmy Dore’s interview with Daryl Davis, so you’ve probably seen this talk before, but the story Davis tells is something folks on both the left and the right should pay attention to and really think about. https://youtu.be/ORp3q1Oaezw I saw […]
This is an interesting discussion of the culture wars from a serious left/Marxist perspective. My viewpoint is that the cultural left has been the hands-down winner on most cultural issues (outside of certain narrow geographical, subcultural, institutional, or socioeconomic sectors). But the economic right has been the hands-down […]
The outcome of Derek Chauvin’s trial will have a large impact on Minneapolis and the country. Minnesota activists say the only justice for George Floyd is a guilty verdict. Nekima Levy Armstrong, a civil rights lawyer, joins CBSN to explain the gravity of the verdict.
The new “white ethnics,” following in the tradition of the Eastern and Southern European Americans. Founder of Nuestro PAC, Chuck Rocha, discusses a new study from the PAC that breaks down the Latino vote in the 2020 general election by age, party affiliation, and pass participation.
St. Louis police detective Luther Hall was brutally beaten while working undercover at a protest against police brutality in September 2017. Now three fellow officers are on trial for the assault, which they claim was a case of mistaken identify. One of the officers already pleaded guilty and […]
By Erik London, World Socialist Web Site An initial examination of the voting data in the 2020 presidential election exposes as false the racialist narrative of American politics that is relentlessly promoted by the Democratic Party. Several aspects of the election data are particularly significant in showing the […]
By Joel Kotkin, American Mind The Biden Administration is on track to stiff our desperate working class. Bill Clinton may have been lionized as the “first black President,” and Barack Obama actually was half African, but no politician in American history owes more to African-American leadership and voters than Joe […]
Today’s episode is a bit different than usual. It’s actually a recording of a talk I gave at Harvard’s Program on Constitutional Government three months ago, entitled The Case for Color-blindness. My talk is about 30 minutes, and it’s followed by an audience Q&A.
Today’s episode is a bit different than usual. It’s actually a recording of a talk I gave at Harvard’s Program on Constitutional Government three months ago, entitled The Case for Color-blindness. My talk is about 30 minutes, and it’s followed by an audience Q&A. Just a warning the […]
Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti discuss Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s calls for more AAPI representation in Biden’s cabinet.
Friends from around the world, welcome to The Great Debate! Not a debate where both sides work to defeat one another, but rather where both sides come together to find common ground on the most important issues of our time. That’s what makes this debate great! This may […]
Touré Reed, author of Toward Freedom: The Case Against Race Reductionism, joins the show to discuss why elites have doubled down on identity and explains how we can combat race essentialism by understanding politics through a public-good framework.
Rep. Grace Meng delivered a powerful rebuke to Republicans in emotional remarks about the rise in anti-Asian American violence.
By Helen Raleigh, Newsweek Critical race theory (CRT) is a divisive, discriminatory ideology that judges people on the basis of their skin color. It has penetrated our society—it’s in federal agencies’ and federal contractors’ “bias training,” in school curricula and many corporations’ “diversity training.” Few are willing to […]
On one side, Rudy Rochman, a young and inspiring activist who uses his growing platform to generate innovative ways to combat anti-Semitism. Rudy is dedicated to fighting antisemitism around the world and strengthening Jews’ connection to the land of Israel. On the other side, Noam Chomsky, a world-renowned […]
Welcome to another episode of Conversations with Coleman. The purpose of my solo episode is twofold. First, I’d like to update you all on the status of my attempted conversation with Ibram X. Kendi, the author of ‘How to be an Anti-racist’, and arguably the leading anti-racist public […]
This is an excerpt from Coleman Hughes’ conversation with Amy Chua.
The new version of the “white man’s burden.”
A crack in the PC Coalition? Journalist, Zaid Jilani, discusses why Hispanic voters, specifically Latino men, are gravitating towards the Republican Party.
More fragmentation. Journalist Zaid Jilani discusses allegations of racial profiling at Smith College and the investigation that followed.
It appears that, increasingly, some of the most hysterically fanatical anti-racist people are white, while individuals and groups that are labeled racist or even white supremacist are becoming more ethnically diverse. This is an interesting cultural phenomenon. While controversies involving race conflict or which overlap with race issues […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Is it just me or has Black History Month become kind of a gross corporate circus lately? Just another banal commercial grab bag of Hallmark moments to peddle the superiority of the American experience. I feel like shit […]
The public and pundits alike are still processing the most recent election, but this much we know: 2020 marks the most diverse Congress in American history, and President Trump garnered more minority voters in 2020 than in 2016. As Georgia faces two runoff elections, which will determine which […]
Is it not obvious that this is merely the latest ruling class tool with which to stir up resentment against minorities and/or incite minorities against whites, while encouraging all to ignore the system that is their common enemy? Russia Today Coca-Cola is facing a major backlash for allegedly […]
Ben Burgis is joined by podcast host and writer Jason Myles along with producer Forrest Miller in the segment, as they screen a small portion of a film from the Chicago Film Archives showing discussion between members of the Young Patriots group in the mid 1960s along with […]
This is a pretty interesting bio documentary on Williams. On the major social and political issues of our time, Walter Williams is one of America’s most important and provocative thinkers. He is black, yet he opposes affirmative action. He believes that the Civil Rights Act was a major […]
Kim Iverson: “These hate crimes are mostly being committed by black young males against Asian seniors. it doesn’t fit the narrative of white racists committing hate crimes against people of color, so it goes mostly ignored. Instead it’s black racists. But many of you say there can’t be […]
By Keith Preston Between the time that Donald Trump entered the Republican primaries in 2015 to the moment of the January 6, 2021 supposed “coup attempt,” the specter of “fascism” has been raised by critics of Trumpism. Analogies to the failed Weimar liberal-capitalist regime of the pre-Nazi era […]
By John McWhorter One can divide antiracism into three waves. First Wave Antiracism battled slavery and segregation. Second Wave Antiracism, in the 1970s and 1980s, battled racist attitudes and taught America that being racist was a flaw. Third Wave Antiracism, becoming mainstream in the 2010s, teaches that racism […]
Keith, Emma & RJ Game Stop vs Wall Street, Robinhood, micro-revolts in the United States, Dodger Stadium’s COVID-19 vaccination site temporarily shut down after protesters gather at entrance, Robinhood was supposed to be for the little guy, Citadel, aristocrats pretending to be friends with the peasants, rich people […]
It’s interesting how the Left appears to be fragmenting into multiple camps concerning the question of who is most oppressed, who is the revolutionary actor, etc. The big debates seem to be between the “class reductionist,” “intersectionality,” and”anti-whiteness” camps, with the latter tendency defining racism as all “non-leftist” […]
From left: Toussaint L’Ouverture, Gabriel Prosser and Denmark Vesey. by Don Fitz The May 25, 2020 murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis sparked a civil rights explosion. It ignited pushes to demilitarize the police, reallocate police over-funding to necessary social services, end economic and power divides, and replace […]
By James Lindsay, New Discourses As unlikely as it seems, a highly obscure academic theory known as Critical Race Theory has completely mainstreamed in society, and now everyone is discussing it. While Critical Race Theory has the noble goal of pointing out problems that can be hard to […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Finally, mercifully, it’s twenty-hundred and twenty-one, dearest motherfuckers. The year of our lord Satan, 2020, is finally fucking over and all around America there are signs of life. It’s a brand new spanking day for democracy, because 2021 doesn’t just bring an […]
By Amy Goodman, Democracy Now Scholars Cornel West and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor respond to the global uprising against racism and police violence following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. “We’re seeing the convergence of a class rebellion with racism and racial terrorism at the center of it,” said […]
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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