The Forum

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

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 Brown Man’s Gambit

How the battle for Tory leadership has reinforced Britain’s retrograde politics of empire

• Rafia Zakaria

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