The Blame Game

One of the stranger aspects of the long-running American affirmative action debate is that both supporters and critics of racial quotas seldom admit in public how scarce blacks would be in cognitively elite institutions without the now traditional massive thumb on the scale in their favor. Liberal racial preference advocates tend to argue as if black representation in prestige positions in percentages close to their share of the population (12 percent or 14 percent, depending on whether or not you count individuals who identify as black and another race) merely requires tie-breakers favoring ...

Thandiwe Newton

Hollywood Race War: Bloods vs. Skins

Once again, my timing was spot-on and a mile off. Last week’s column was about how, in Hollywood, Jews are now considered “white” by the blacks who’ve been ...

Biden vs. Biden on ‘Is America a Racist Country?’

"Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country." So declared Sen. Tim Scott, a Black Republican, in his televised rebuttal to Joe Biden's address to Congress. Asked the next ...

Joe Biden’s Long Hot Spring

When Joe Biden was 21, liberalism peaked on Nov. 3, 1964, as Lyndon Baines Johnson won over 61 percent of the popular vote and 486 of the 535 electoral votes. On his coattails, ...

All the World’s a Stage

By choosing a black actress to play the part of Anne Boleyn on a television series about the life of Henry VIII, the production company has, no doubt unwittingly, demonstrated how ...

The Only Polemicists Left

“Why Is Wokeness Winning?” asks veteran pundit Andrew Sullivan, recently fired by New York magazine for distressing its more fragile younger staffers by thinking for ...

Century City

The Waning Luxury of Being Color-Blind

Folks on the right love to pontificate about L.A. with no concern for accuracy. Case in point: Last month a well-connected film financier jumped to his death from a building in ...

A Whole New Breed of White People

The 1977 ABC miniseries Roots—despite its slew of historical inaccuracies and outright fabrications—injected lethal doses of guilt into white America’s collective ...

Stop Apologising for Saving Black Lives

Idiot conservatives were doing the idiot thing this week, screaming "racism!" in response to an old tape of former Mayor Michael Bloomberg defending stop-and-frisk, one of the ...

The Parable of the Nazi Pizza

Susan Pang was one of the most attractive women I’ve ever known. Born in Hong Kong but raised in the U.S., one parent was a right ol’ proper servant of ’Er Majesty’s ...

Rashida Jones

The Affirmative Action Honor System

Although we are constantly told by white intellectuals that race does not exist, the most remarkable aspect of the American system of racial affirmative action is that it ...

Back in 1994

In 1994, a black man told an audience at New Jersey’s Kean College, "€œWhite folks was in the caves while we was building empires…. We taught philosophy and ...

A Border Collie and a pit bull

The Unfortunately Innate Nature of Intelligence

Human races are subspecies of Homo sapiens [sic], just as Basset Hounds and Chihuahuas are subspecies of dog. The breeds of neither are precise genetic categories: In the words of ...

Social Oncology, Race, and the Legacy Media

“It’s Just a Lump. It Will Probably Go Away.” I think I will don a loincloth, stop bathing, and ascend a mountain where I will gibber, drool, and perhaps ...


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