Sublime

Thomas Sowell and John McWhorter took on all these issues with a sense of compassion in their respective books. Sowell’s The Intellectuals and Race is a relentless dissection of how leftists try to reconstruct racial realities to further their agenda. McWhorter’s Losing the Race is a scathing—though empathetic—attack on contemporary black anti-inte

all of us are losing what he felicitously called our “collective vocabulary.” He asked, “Are common points of reference dwindling? Has the personal niche supplanted the public square?”

WHITE PEOPLE HAVE their own dueling consciousness, between the segregationist and the assimilationist: the slave trader and the missionary, the proslavery exploiter and the antislavery civilizer, the eugenicist and the melting pot–ter, the mass incarcerator and the mass developer, the Blue Lives Matter and the All Lives Matter, the not-racist natio

racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted, and that the place of racism in imperial ideology has now been replaced by ‘culturism’. There is no such word, but it