Category Archives: Race

James Kalb: Against Inclusiveness: How the Diversity Regime is Flattening America and the West and What to Do About It

Jim Kalb has a website at JimKalb.com. He writes regularly for Crisis magazine. His previous book came out in 2008: The Tyranny of Liberalism: Understanding and Overcoming Administered Freedom, Inquisitorial Tolerance, and Equality by Command. Here’s a transcript of parts … Continue reading

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Who Was The Last American Politician Who Was a Public Intellectual?

I think it was the sociologist and politician Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who noted that Americans tend to behave more sanely the closer to Canada they live. Newt Gingrich thinks of himself as one but none of his books stand up … Continue reading

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Baby Richard

Beginning in April 1995, Dennis Prager devoted every hour of his radio show for six weeks, much to the dismay of his bosses and many of his listeners, to the Baby Richard controversy. Why this obsession? Because the story exemplified … Continue reading

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White Oppression

Nicholas Kristof wrote from Zimbabwe for the New York Times Mar. 23, 2005: The hungry children and the families dying of AIDS here are gut-wrenching, but somehow what I find even more depressing is this: Many, many ordinary black Zimbabweans … Continue reading

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Your Life Chances Are Largely Shaped By Your Genes

Economist Gregory Clark wrote in the New York Times Feb. 21, 2014: To a striking extent, your overall life chances can be predicted not just from your parents’ status but also from your great-great-great-grandparents’. The recent study suggests that 10 … Continue reading

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