In 1772, Phillis Wheatley was tried in the city of Boston for writing poetry. It wasn't the content of her poems that they objected to; it was the fact that she was a black woman, and a slave (since the North had not yet abolished slavery). The white men who tried her were ...read more
There's been a great deal of debate over Serena Williams' loss in the U.S. Open this weekend to Naomi Osaka, with some arguing that the penalties leveled on her by umpire Carlos Ramos were merited, and others arguing they were the result of his racial blindness. While I stand on ...read more
As Donald Trump throws infant immigrants into concentration camps, the pundit class has engaged in a debate over a pressing issue: should we shame members of his administration in public? This weekend, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was refused service and asked to leave the Red Hen, a ...read more
It took me a moment to digest Rick Santorum's disgraceful comments on CNN yesterday, because they were so appalling, so detached from reality, and so nakedly racist that I had a hard time believing he could say this out loud. On a panel discussion on State Of The Union, former ...read more
Conservative columnist and Fox News contributor Bill Kristol is hardly a identity politics militant. But just as most of the left now recognizes, he agrees that Tucker Carlson is about as close to an ethno-nationalist as you can get. "Now you look at — Tucker Carlson began at The ...read more