Democracy in the Balance
The Origin of Specious
The roots of “anti-woke” rhetoric, from Richard Hanania’s alt-right screeds to Charles Murray’s bigoted race science
- Hannah Gais
Christopher Rufo
CRT & the Backlash
Fear and Loathing in Tallahassee
How Ron DeSantis and the Florida GOP have created a moral panic, scapegoating CRT as the latest villain in their “war on the woke.”
- Samuel Hoadley-Brill
Democracy in the Balance
How to Start a Fire
In the wake of the mass shooting at a Colorado gay bar, a reactionary media has blood on its hands
- Ben Miller
School Wars
Stuck on the Rufo Road
Why Democratic power brokers won’t fight for public education
- Jennifer C. Berkshire
CRT & the Backlash
The Lethal Logic of White Supremacist Violence
Retracing the descent of replacement theory into racial terror
- Anthony Conwright
CRT & the Backlash
The Trouble with White Fragility Discourse
Why HR divisions can’t be on the vanguard of racial reform
- Anthony Conwright
Imaginative Power
Hollywood and the Censors’ Ball
On writing history with lightning and the fear of a Black audience
- Niela Orr
Democracy in the Balance
The Worst of Times
How the paper of record enables the CRT moral panic
- Chris Lehmann
School Wars
Lone-Star Inquisition
How the Texas book ban harks back to the heyday of the Confederacy
- Anthony Conwright
CRT & the Backlash
Behind the Critical Race Theory Crackdown
Racial blamelessness and the politics of forgetting
- Sam Adler-Bell
