Sublime

taupe,

“handsome and pretty and educated and white”, who, according to the Times, not only “believed they owned the world” but “had reason to”. She was from a Pittsburgh suburb, Upper St. Clair, the daughter of a retired Westinghouse senior manager. She had been Phi Beta Kappa at Wellesley, a graduate of the Yale School of Management, a congressional

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

Moral speculation was puny compared to moral action. I finished my degree and headed back to the States. I was going to Yale for medical school.

doggedness

The medical uncertainty compounds patients’ own uncertainty.