4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (1425+ words) Whenever I spoke with Gloria Steinem on my program over the years, I always got a sense of a person with incredible charisma, intellect, and a real grasp of what power was and how to use it. She was a…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (375+ words) As Black August Resistance Month 2026 ends, a multifront war for the political heart of Afro-America is roiling. This internecine war is about ideology. Both Black nationalist political scientist Robert C. Smith and Black social democratic historian Manning Marable contended that African…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (915+ words) Back to all Columns According to the 2021 census, the U.K. is 2.5% black, but more than half of all its TV advertisements feature black people. (That’s even more lopsided than their representation in the country’s homicide statistics, where black Britons make up…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (310+ words) compactmag.com One of the more revealing moments in what we now call “Woke 1” was the firestorm around the philosophy professor Rebecca Tuvel’s paper “In Defense of Transracialism.” Tuvel began by observing the contrasting progressive reactions to the gender transition…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (865+ words) Cape Argus The exploited politics of unsettled identity Lorenzo Davids, CEO, Development Impact Fund. South Africa has spent centuries trying to decide what a Coloured person is. The colonial state classified them. Apartheid institutionalised them. Democracy retained their categorisation. Political…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (288+ words) Susan Neiman argues for a universalist Left—but can it escape the ideas that helped shape identity politics? The CDU once sought to anchor postwar Germany in a Christian vision of human dignity and moral order. Today, its symbols remain…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1659+ words) Ethnic nationalism, “group rights” and “cultural rights” come in left-wing and right-wing flavours. All are incompatible with a free society founded on individual rights and equality before the law. Election season is upon us, and identity politics is doing a…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (35+ words) A practical filter for knowing which debates are worth having Before I debate anyone, I run a quick test. Is the debate based on …...