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
The great civic whitewash
Chronicling the effort to make the facts of our racial history–and the civic mandates arising from them–a dead letter in public life.
CRT & the Backlash
Friends Like These
Affirmative action’s fate depends on a pair of ambivalent advocates
- Jonathan Feingold
CRT & the Backlash
Reclaiming Affirmative Action
A case for how race matters before, during, and after college admissions
- Jonathan Feingold
CRT & the Backlash
The Anti-Antiracist Court
How the Supreme Court has weaponized the Fourteenth Amendment and Brown v. Board of Education against antiracism
- Jonathan Feingold
CRT & the Backlash
White-out at the White House
Biden seeks counsel from a group of scholars who aren’t deeply versed in the racial threat to our democracy
- Jason Stanley
CRT & the Backlash
Higher Ed and the Policing of Memory
Why universities must help lead the battle to defend and expand critical race theory
- Danielle Conway
CRT & the Backlash
The Empty Quest for “Racelessness”
The American right’s latest bid to argue race out of existence
- Anthony Conwright
CRT & the Backlash
Whitewashing Replacement Theory
Disoriented by racial terror, pundits rush to peddle new lies about critical race theory—and to both-sides murderous hatred
- Tom Scocca
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
CRT & the Backlash
White Anxiety, Redefined
The psychic wages of disfiguring the meaning of critical race theory
- Anthony Conwright
CRT & the Backlash
Behind the Critical Race Theory Crackdown
Racial blamelessness and the politics of forgetting
- Sam Adler-Bell
