Volcanoes are erupting in The Philippines, but on-fire Australia received some welcome rain. The Iran war cries have been called off and The Donald’s military powers are about to be hamstrung by the Senate. Meanwhile, his impeachment trial is starting, and we’re all on Twitter for a front-row seat.
Tag: Race
02/28/2022
House Passes Bill to Make Lynching a Hate Crime
Lawmakers in both parties hailed the action as historic, but a separate bill to outlaw discrimination based on a person’s natural hair failed amid Republican opposition.
02/10/2022
The Role of Racial Resentment in Our Politics
The parties seem further apart on questions of race today than they have been for some time—but the truth is more complicated.
12/21/2021
Is “Wokism” a Religion? | A Conversation with John McWhorter
The modern antiracist movement, often referred to as the Woke movement, has provoked backlash for seemingly seeking to deplatform and censor Americans with dissenting points of view, and attributing racism to wide swaths of American society.
12/20/2021
John McWhorter on Woke Racism
Columbia linguistics professor John McWhorter argues that a new religion disguised as antiracism is hurting Black communities and weakening the American social fabric.
12/04/2021
John McWhorter on Why Woke Ideas Harm Minority Communities
John McWhorter and Yascha Mounk discuss whether "wokeness" is a religion and how it affects black Americans.
11/22/2021
How to be an anti-racist
Diversity training doesn't work — here's some stuff that does.
11/02/2021
The anti-antiracist
John McWhorter on white privilege, Black communities, and the excesses of wokeness.
10/29/2021
Opinion: I’m With Condoleezza Rice About White Guilt
Condoleezza Rice, the first Black female secretary of state, who now heads Stanford University’s Hoover Institution — and who, by her account, attended segregated schools in the Deep South — was a guest last week on “The View.”
10/26/2021
Diversity study: TV looks more like US and viewers approve
Television fare that reflects the nation’s increasing racial and ethnic diversity is finding favor with industry gatekeepers and viewers, according to a study of the 2019-20 TV season released Tuesday.
10/18/2021
Americans Want Racial Diversity More Than Ever Before
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 of reckoning over race relations.
09/30/2021
What Could Go Right? Rights and rewrites
LGBTQ wins worldwide, the US approves interracial marriage at record-high rates, and Portugal and Malaysia become vax leaders
10/01/2021