Woke Addict

There is value to DeRay Mckesson’s memoir, even if he’s not quite sure of who his audience is.

By Brentin Mock

Winter 2019, No. 51 – 14 MIN READ

Eyes Off the Prize

Mark Lilla isn’t wrong about identity politics, necessarily; but he’s wrong to see it as a greater danger than capitalism unchained.

By Jim Sleeper

August 17, 2017, 4:36 pm – 15 MIN READ

Blackout

Along the path of the August 21st solar eclipse, there live almost no African Americans. The peculiar trajectory of the moon’s shadow illuminates racial isolation and compromise, past and present.

By Alice Ristroph

August 14, 2017, 2:23 pm – 23 MIN READ

Affirmative Action and the Burden of Argument

Some lessons to draw from a scholar of Black Lives Matter, as Trump's Justice Department goes after affirmative action.

By Nathan Pippenger

August 3, 2017, 2:46 pm – 5 MIN READ