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The White Man, Unburdened
How Charles Murray stopped worrying and learned to love racism.
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Stuart Schrader
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Quinn Slobodian
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The Baffler
on
July 4, 2018
Sam Harris, Charles Murray, and the Allure of Race Science
This is not "forbidden knowledge." It is America’s most ancient justification for bigotry and racial inequality.
by
Ezra Klein
via
Vox
on
March 27, 2018
Free Markets and Fixed Natures
How neoliberals fell in love with “human nature”—the glue that still unites the divergent factions of the new right.
by
Quinn Slobodian
via
Boston Review
on
April 9, 2025
Losing the Genetic Lottery
How did a field meant to reclaim genetics from Nazi abuses wind up a haven for race science?
by
Padmini Raghunath
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Distillations
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April 6, 2023
Behind the Critical Race Theory Crackdown
Racial blamelessness and the politics of forgetting.
by
Sam Adler-Bell
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The Forum
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January 13, 2022
The Mismeasure of Minds
25 years later, The Bell Curve’s analysis of race and intelligence refuses to die.
by
Michael E. Staub
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Boston Review
on
May 8, 2019
Appalachia Isn’t Trump Country
A region that outsiders love to imagine but can’t seem to understand.
by
Elizabeth Catte
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Regan Penaluna
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Guernica
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March 7, 2018
The Unwelcome Revival of ‘Race Science’
Its defenders claim to be standing up for uncomfortable truths, but race science is still as bogus as ever.
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Gavin Evans
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The Guardian
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March 2, 2018
The Mythical Whiteness of Trump Country
"Hillbilly Elegy" has been used to explain the 2016 election, but its logic is rooted in a dangerous myth about race in Appalachia.
by
Elizabeth Catte
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Boston Review
on
November 7, 2017
Hokey Cowboy: Is Hayek to Blame?
Hayek suspected that nothing about the vindication of neoliberalism was likely to be straightforward.
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David Runciman
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London Review of Books
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May 22, 2025
How America Invented the Red State
According to conventional wisdom, the last quarter century of elections has proved that most of the country leans conservative. It all started with a map.
by
Tarence Ray
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The Nation
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December 17, 2024
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The Eternal Inflation of the Spotless Grade
For more than 50 years, we've been worrying about "grade inflation" at elite American universities. It's time to move on.
by
Chris Deutsch
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HNN
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December 20, 2023
Can Standardized Testing Escape Its Racist Past?
High-stakes testing has struggled with overt and implicit biases. Should it still have a place in modern education?
by
Deborah Blum
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UnDark
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December 14, 2022
The Insidious Idea About “Safety” That Keeps Putting Us in Danger
A concept that took hold in the ’70s has haunted everything from seat belts to masks—and experts won't let it die.
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Tim Requarth
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Slate
on
November 8, 2021
The Chilling Persistence of Eugenics
Elizabeth Catte’s new book traces a shameful history and its legacy today.
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Chris Lehmann
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The New Republic
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April 20, 2021
The Shadow Over H.P. Lovecraft
Recent works inspired by his fiction struggle to reckon with his racist fantasies.
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Siddhartha Deb
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The New Republic
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March 19, 2021
The Year the Clock Broke
How the world we live in already happened in 1992.
by
John Ganz
via
The Baffler
on
November 5, 2018
Forgotten Feminisms: Johnnie Tillmon's Battle Against 'The Man'
Tillmon and other National Welfare Rights Organization members defied mainstream ideas of feminism in their fight for welfare.
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Judith Shulevitz
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New York Review of Books
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June 26, 2018
Conservatives Say Campus Speech Is Under Threat. That’s Been True for Most of History.
There’s never been a golden age of free speech at American universities.
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Todd Gitlin
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Washington Post
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August 11, 2017