The Status of the Dream
Black voices of gloom are a staple in reporting on race. “Dreams unfulfilled” is how the Washington Post describes the racial landscape as the nation approaches the 50th anniversary of ...
Clear Thinking on Race
This book is a wonderful spin-off from Thomas Sowell’s magnificent 2009 volume Intellectuals and Society. For those who want a short introduction to Sowell-think, this small book is a perfect ...
A Failed Policy
The moral arguments against racial preferences in higher education — racial double standards in admissions — have been made once too often. They’re powerful, but we all know them inside ...
The Demise of Section 5
Minority-voting-rights activists are all aflutter over the possibility that the Supreme Court will soon hold an important section of the 1965 Voting Rights Act unconstitutional — or at least in ...
The DoE and Racial School-Discipline Disparities
With great fanfare, the Office for Civil Rights in the U.S. Department of Education has issued a new report on “equity and educational opportunities,” focusing on racial and ethnic disparities ...
Racial Gerrymandering
Blacks should know their place, the media seem to think. Increasingly, they are leaving their natural habitat — the inner city — and wandering into residential areas where lots of ...
Justice and the New Black Panthers
Christopher Coates has been the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights’ most-wanted man. Last Friday, the commission finally got him. Bravely defying an order of the Department of Justice, Coates appeared ...
Wallace and Beck: A Clarification
A number of people have e-mailed me a bit confused by my argument in “Chris Wallace Gets It Wrong.” They correctly point out that I focused on Chris Wallace and ...
Chris Wallace Gets It Wrong
Oh dear, I am such a fan of Chris Wallace. But, in questioning Glenn Beck this morning on Fox News Sunday, he mangled an important bit of American history. Not ...
Yes, the Black Panther Case Is Small Potatoes
Almost a month ago, I published a piece in NRO titled “The New Black Panther Case: A Conservative Dissent.” The main thrust of the article — now forgotten by everyone, ...