Sublime

Once again, the nation’s most prestigious center of learning would play a pivotal role in race theory.

The great failing of these theories is that, taken seriously, they would cast a protectionist pall over popular culture that would likely benefit certain minority entrepreneurs only at the net expense of society overall. Excellence in culture thrives, like excellence elsewhere, in a setting open to competition—and that includes competition concerni

Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing the majority opinion on Romer v. Evans, declared that the amendment was inexplicable of anything but animosity to a class of people. It was both too narrow and too broad. It identified a person by a single trait, and then it denied that person protection across the board. “Amendment 2 classifies homosexuals not to f

Lee's racial critique of his fellow director is off the mark. It is almost wholly ad hominem. It focuses on the character of Tarantino's race rather than the character of his work—brilliant work that allows the word nigger to be heard in a rich panoply of contexts and intonations.

To fight for mental and moral changes after policy is changed means fighting alongside growing benefits and

Many critics of the “HNIC” title proceeded as if their offended sensibilities alone should settle the matter—as if their sense of outrage necessarily made the act they objected to a bad act warranting an apology.

The judges, however, wisely rejected that argument, quoting Thurgood Marshall's observation that given the mysteries of human motivation, “it would be unwise to presume as a matter of law that human beings of one definable group will not discriminate against other members of their group.”

There is no in-between safe space of “not racist.” The claim of “not racist” neutrality is a mask for racism.

With its publication Wilson became, as Frederick Jackson Turner saw it, “the first southern scholar of adequate training and power who has dealt with American history as a whole.” Other reviewers shared Turner’s admiration for Wilson’s history, yet they couldn’t help but notice the author’s fondness for the Ku Klux Klan, an organization whose missi