By Kali Holloway, The Nation Conservatives are rebranding an inclusive, honest accounting of American history as inherently anti-white. For more than a year now, conservatives have been waging war against the misdefined conception of critical race theory that they themselves created. The right-wing campaign against so-called CRT largely […]
By Connor Grubaugh, Tablet When it entered office, the Biden-Harris administration promised to “lower the temperature” of America’s divisive conflicts over race, identity, and recognition. While Biden’s campaign appealed to moderates, however, his policies and appointments so far show him embracing a progressive “anti-racist” agenda fundamentally at odds […]
Ryan Grim, Kim Iversen, and Robby Soave discuss the tweet that has NPR in hot water.
By Ryan Grim, The Intercept Democrats fear they are losing white swing voters over racial politics. Three studies suggest that the party’s elite culture may be the real problem. LAST MONDAY, a Democratic firm hosted focus groups with women in Virginia who voted in 2017 for Democratic Gov. Ralph […]
As America reckons with systemic racism, schools are responding by expanding diversity and inclusion efforts. But as the efforts have become fused with a decades-old legal concept known as critical race theory, some parents and conservative activists are fighting back. A new episode of CBSN Originals’ Reverb series […]
In the new book ‘Woke Racism,’ author and professor John McWhorter argues that the idea of ‘wokeness’ and antiracism has become a new religion for liberals. McWhorter joins Morning Joe to discuss.
I tend to disagree with Ryan’s analysis of this. I’d say the culture war is first and foremost a quasi-religious conflict over existential values. Class conflict and race conflict are both real, but they appear to be subordinated to the wider existential conflict. Ryan Grim argues that if […]
Krystal responds to the woke racism casually being talked about on MSNBC as pundits react to the GOP winning in Virginia especially with non-college educated white voters
This week, Briahna Joy Gray speaks with cultural critic & author Thomas Chatterton Williams about his latest book, Self Portrait in Black & White: Unlearning Race. You may know him as one of the authors of the infamous Harpers letter on cancel culture, or from controversy surrounding his […]
By Paul Butler, Washington Post A jury of his “bubbas.” That’s what the defense lawyer for one of the three White men accused of murdering Ahmaud Arbery wanted for his client. Thanks to the judge, that’s pretty much the jury the defendants got, plus some bubba-ettes. Arbery was […]
In Virginia, a moderate pro-business Republican was elected governor. A black woman whose parents were immigrants from Jamaica was elected as the Republican lieutenant governor. A Latino man whose parents were Cuban refugees was elected as the Republican Attorney General. There is a lot more going on with […]
By Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker As an attorney, Derrick Bell worked on many civil-rights cases, but his doubts about their impact launched a groundbreaking school of thought. The town of Harmony, Mississippi, which owes its origins to a small number of formerly enslaved Black people who bought […]
John McWhorter is a linguist, associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University and an author.
I’d argue this case is more a matter of class privilege than race privilege. There are cases of rich white kids getting away with rape or killing multiple people in a DUI, while there was a case of a black kid being left at Rikers’ Island for three […]
By Alan J. Levine, Chronicles The academic field of Critical Race Theory doesn’t understand the history of race. Over the last 30 years, especially since the spring of 2020, Critical Race Theory (CRT) and its accompanying obsessions with “whiteness” and “white privilege” has almost overwhelmed discussion about race […]
By Andrew Sullivan A tough but civil conversation. Briahna, a lawyer and political consultant who served as press secretary for Bernie Sanders, co-hosts the superb podcast Bad Faith. I start our enjoyable convo with a simple question: how can we best facilitate the flourishing of black America? I’m […]
By Andrew Sullivan We also discuss the many qualities that make wokeness a new religion. For anyone who follows online debates over race in America, John needs little introduction. The Columbia linguist just wrote a bracing tract, Woke Racism, against the new elite religion. He, like me, despises […]
Anarchist News From ILL WILL A Conversation with Marquis Bey In the summer of 2020, Marquis Bey published Anarcho-Blackness: Notes Toward a Black Anarchism with AK Press. Released hot off the heels of a nationwide uprising against white supremacy and the police, the book stages an encounter between […]
Why are folks debating whether Kamala is “Black” and is it relevant to her presidential prospects? How does one square the belief that White Americans are too racist to vote for policies that benefit Blacks with a redistributive economic agenda — much less Reparations? Briahna Joy Gray covers […]
Briahna Joy Gray talks critical race theory’s anti-communist bias with Dr. Charisse Burden-Stelly (Dr. CBS) in this clip from this week’s full premium episode. The basis of identity politics is that gender, sexuality, and race form the basic structure of society, not class relations. The 1619 Project came […]
Robby Soave breaks down new data on hate crimes.
By J.C. Tuccille, Reason People are increasingly tolerant of racial minorities. From protests inspired by the police murder of George Floyd, to the 1619 project at The New York Times, to battles over curricula inspired by controversial “anti-racism” ideology, the United States seems to be at a moment […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley Fred Hampton had a dream. It was a little more militant than Doctor King’s, but no less ambitious. The young chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party dreamed of a grand coalition of revolutionaries spanning […]
Briahna Joy Gray reacts to President Biden’s plummeting poll numbers amongst Black Americans.
By Samuel Goldman, The Week Democrats are approaching panic. Frustrated by congressional wrangling and sagging presidential approval, the party is looking to reverse a trend that points toward heavy losses in 2022 and perhaps 2024, when former President Donald Trump seems likely to mount another bid for the […]
Saagar and guest host Marshall Kosloff discuss the decision by Bill De Blasio to end NYC’s Gifted & Talented Program due to ‘segregation’ as his Mayoral tenure ends.
Margaret Kimberley, BAR Executive Editor and Senior Columnist Black Agenda Report Police killings of Black people are a feature of American law enforcement and they are deliberately under counted. The New York Times and other outlets report that most police killings in this country are “mislabelled .” The […]
By Nick Gillespie Reason “If you want to fight the impulse that we human beings have to feel better than others,” says Chloé Valdary, “it’s a bad idea to make people so insecure.” Chloé Valdary had an unusual childhood. She grew up in a Christian family, but one […]
By Ashley Lucas, Plough I. FATHER, PANTHER, SOLDIER, SPY In 2014 in Pennsylvania, Russell Maroon Shoatz was released from twenty-two consecutive years of solitary confinement into the general prison population. This is twenty-one years and fifty weeks longer than the length of time in solitary the United Nations […]
Wednesday, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pressed an FBI official on the radicalization of police officers by white supremacy groups.
Alyssa Farah makes the case for better media coverage of the country’s hundreds of missing Native American girls and women.
By Shiho Fukada, Keith Bedford Photojournalist and filmmaker team Keith Bedford and Shiho Fukada are married. They met in New York. Fukada is originally from Japan and started to miss her family when they were living in New York with their young son. Fukada and Bedford wanted him […]
My guest today is Christopher Rufo. Christopher is a documentary filmmaker and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. He has almost single-handedly led the national fight against Critical Race Theory, as it manifests in public schools and in workplaces. I haven’t said much about this subject yet. […]
National security reporter Spencer Ackerman on 9/11, mass surveillance at home, and failed wars abroad. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the United States invaded and occupied two countries, bombed four others, helped create 21 million refugees and cause over 800,000 deaths, and spent over $6 trillion […]
This is an interesting annotated bibliography of works that critique critical race theory from a leftist perspective. READ MORE
Matt lost his voice this week, so we’re unpaywalling this extended interview with Adolph Reed. We’ll be back next week with Monday Mourning and a new UI episode. Subscribers can still get their UI fix with Katie’s attempt at the Taibbi dating app, also out today. “But if […]
By Hailey Sadle and Darian Woehr, Washington Post Kay Atene’s family lives together on the same red earth in Oljato-Monument Valley in Utah that her great-grandparents returned to after surviving the “Long Walk” more than 150 years ago. Generations living together is central to how the Navajo have […]
Amy Chua, professor at Yale Law School and author of Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations, World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability, and Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, joins The Realignment to discuss how political and […]
California, where non-Hispanic whites are now only around 36% of the population, is something of a test market for the racial/ethnic future of the US. So far, it’s not the rainbow utopia envisioned by the left or the civil war envisioned by sectors of the far right. It’s […]
by Tracy Jan Jena McGregor Meghan Hoyer Washington Post After the murder of George Floyd ignited nationwide protests, corporate America acknowledged it could no longer stay silent and promised to take an active role in confronting systemic racism. From Silicon Valley to Wall Street, companies proclaimed “Black lives […]
The Week Staff August 23, 2021 The U.S. and Canada are starting to face their history of forcing indigenous children into abusive boarding schools. Here’s everything you need to know: What was the school’s goal? Simply put, cultural genocide. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the U.S. government […]
By Nicky Reid aka Comrade Hermit Exile in Happy Valley In case you haven’t noticed, the shit has kind of hit the fucking fan in Kabul. If you haven’t noticed, you must be Amish and I envy you because the banshees of cable news have been screaming about […]
By Rafia Zakaria, The Nation Afghan women never asked for US air strikes. On a March evening in 1999, a wealthy Hollywood socialite named Mavis Leno, the wife of late-night superstar Jay Leno, held a fundraiser to which she invited her rich and/or famous friends. The event was […]
By Aaron Miguel Cantú The Intercept Far from breaking with Trump’s civil disorder prosecutions, Biden has doubled down with an expansive view of extremism. WITH GAS MASKS covering their faces, police officers in Mobile, Alabama, stood guard at the entrance of a highway on-ramp as tear gas wafted in […]
Duh? By John Reid Blackwell Times-Dispatch The economic gap between white workers and workers of color has widened during the pandemic, as well as the wealth gap between lower income Virginians and those with higher incomes, according to a recent study by Virginia Commonwealth University and research from […]
0:00 Intro 2:19 Does systemic racism still exist in the US? 12:26 Addressing “racial inequities” rather than “systemic racism” 18:30 John: “The idea that modern colleges and universities are racist spaces is false” 29:18 Race and the academic job market 34:40 Why does anger persist even after progress toward […]
By Joel Kotkin National Socialism, Maoism and Marxism-Leninism all have one thing in common: they boil down human experience to one aspect, such as race or class, and diminish the struggles and achievements of much of humanity. In some respects, as an approach to understanding history, CRT has […]
The growth in the American population over the last decade was driven entirely by minority communities, according to new data released Thursday by the U.S. Census Bureau, as the number of white Americans declined for the first time since the nation’s founding.
I am inclined toward the view that Thomas Sowell’s analysis of economics and race, and Kevin Carson’s analysis of economics and class, mutually reinforce each other. Carson focuses on how the state keeps down the working class and Sowell focuses on how the state keeps down blacks. Ironically, […]
On The Jacobin Show, Adolph Reed and Walter Benn Michaels address the longstanding contention that white workers are too committed to their white identity to fight for universal public goods.
Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic by Chalmers Johnson
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