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Title Publication Date
Would Zora Neale Hurston celebrate Black History Month? Arguable February 6, 2024
The pernicious myth of 'inclusive' discrimination Arguable January 23, 2024
Donald Trump, man of — faith? Arguable January 9, 2024
MLK embraced Israel. Why does BLM embrace Hamas? Arguable October 24, 2023
Conservatives should embrace 'Lift Every Voice' The Boston Globe September 13, 2023
Corporate America is on notice: Discriminating by race is illegal The Boston Globe August 23, 2023
Oakland's NAACP blames out-of-control crime on left-wing policies The Boston Globe August 2, 2023
The mendacious assault on Florida's new curriculum Arguable July 25, 2023
In rejecting affirmative action, Justice Thomas is no hypocrite The Boston Globe June 21, 2023
Hypocrisy at Middlebury College The Boston Globe June 18, 2023
Cleopatra wasn't black. So what? The Boston Globe May 3, 2023
Woke is easy to define. It's harder to fight. The Boston Globe / Arguable March 28, 2023
Let Nikki be Nikki The Boston Globe March 1, 2023
The deeply flawed campaign for racial reparations The Boston Globe February 5, 2023
Undeclaring the state of emergency Arguable January 31, 2023
The 'first lady' of television news Arguable January 10, 2023
The school that sabotaged its standout students The Boston Globe January 5, 2023
Georgia voters expose the 'Jim Crow' smear as a lie The Boston Globe May 25, 2022
Is George Washington fit only for contempt? The Boston Globe May 18, 2022
It's not just the Holocaust that Whoopi Goldberg got wrong The Boston Globe February 6, 2022
When racial hate turns out to be faked Arguable December 14, 2021
Arguable: Thomas Jefferson, honored and dishonored Arguable October 25, 2021
Love across the color line The Boston Globe August 22, 2021
The virtue-signaling stock exchange The Boston Globe August 15, 2021
The census is too nosy The Boston Globe August 12, 2021
The very racist history of gun control The Boston Globe August 1, 2021
Is America racist? Kamala Harris and Tim Scott say no. The Boston Globe May 5, 2021
Jim Crow was a horror. Don't trivialize it Arguable April 12, 2021
Race-based admissions are wrong, and it's time the Supreme Court said so The Boston Globe March 7, 2021
The racial decency — and irony — of Rutherford Hayes The Boston Globe February 14, 2021
The politics of an Auschwitz survivor's son The Boston Globe January 24, 2021
"Mostly Peaceful": from 2020's Words of the Year The Boston Globe December 28, 2020
Were California voters confused? Arguable November 9, 2020
The Israeli actress and the Egyptian queen The Boston Globe October 18, 2020
On California's ballot, an invitation to legalize discrimination The Boston Globe October 8, 2020
A defeat for the cancel culture The Boston Globe August 5, 2020
The ballpark is no place for the national anthem The Boston Globe July 31, 2020
Is English grammar racist? Arguable July 27, 2020
'Cancel culture' grows increasingly cruel Arguable June 29, 2020
Statue-toppling, right and wrong The Boston Globe June 14, 2020
The week the looters came The Boston Globe June 7, 2020
Indecent cops, indecent rioters Arguable June 1, 2020
The enemies of Prop 209 The Boston Globe May 20, 2020
The 'Great Pope' who changed the world Arguable May 18, 2020
Democratic debate so white? So what? The Boston Globe January 14, 2020
A century ago, the science was settled: Immigrants had to be kept out The Boston Globe November 10, 2019
What to Frederick Douglass is the "Douglass Plan"? Arguable July 15, 2019
Biden was right. Busing was wrong The Boston Globe July 3, 2019
A grievous sinner, and a great American The Boston Globe June 9, 2019
Non-diversity and the spelling bee The Boston Globe June 5, 2019
The banishing of Kate Smith isn't 'sensitive' — it's ridiculous The Boston Globe April 24, 2019
Reparations for slavery are unworkable — and unjust The Boston Globe March 31, 2019
Voter ID laws aren't worth fighting over The Boston Globe February 21, 2019
As MLK foresaw, racism in America has been largely overcome The Boston Globe January 20, 2019
The PC commissars vs. Bryan Cranston The Boston Globe January 13, 2019
Elizabeth Warren, typical white person The Boston Globe October 17, 2018
Why is a great Senate office building named for a modern racist? The Boston Globe August 29, 2018
At Smith College, the racist incident that wasn't The Boston Globe August 8, 2018
70 years ago, Mayor Humphrey changed the Democratic Party The Boston Globe July 8, 2018
The citizenship question isn't the only one the Census should scrap The Boston Globe April 4, 2018
Voter suppression? Alabama election exposed a myth The Boston Globe December 31, 2017
In defense of Chief Wahoo Arguable September 18, 2017
Loving across the color line The Boston Globe May 24, 2017
An echo of Trump in the last of the Whigs The Boston Globe February 19, 2017
Racist opinions are hateful. That shouldn't make them crimes The Boston Globe January 11, 2017
A civil rights hero? Muhammad Ali was anything but The Boston Globe June 8, 2016
If you don't rent to criminals, are you a racist? The Boston Globe April 10, 2016
Sex is etched in our DNA, but race is all in our heads The Boston Globe March 20, 2016
'Mismatched' black students pay the price of affirmative action The Boston Globe December 16, 2015
The right way to apologize for slavery The Boston Globe December 13, 2015
Make redistricting better by making it color-blind The Boston Globe October 21, 2015
The Confederate flag is anti-American The Boston Globe July 12, 2015
Thuggish censors in the marketplace of ideas The Boston Globe May 3, 2015
American to the core The Boston Globe January 19, 2015
White racism has all but disappeared from US politics The Boston Globe January 4, 2015
Wrong sperm, right baby. Why the lawsuit? The Boston Globe October 12, 2014
Thad Cochran's voting-rights victory The Boston Globe June 29, 2014
Marriage and the 'wrong side of history' The Boston Globe June 18, 2014
Sterling's words were vulgar and bigoted, but private The Boston Globe April 30, 2014
Political values aren't coded in skin color The Boston Globe February 9, 2014
Faked hate? The Boston Globe December 11, 2013
Does a police officer's race matter? The Boston Globe August 25, 2013
Voting rights and the chains of memory The Boston Globe June 30, 2013
At Harvard, the right not to be offended trumps academic freedom The Boston Globe May 22, 2013
King's 'Letter' and the law The Boston Globe April 14, 2013
Abolition, word by word The Boston Globe February 13, 2013
A party that doesn't think with its skin The Boston Globe December 23, 2012
What's the real race issue here? The Boston Globe October 7, 2012
America the non-racist The Boston Globe June 27, 2012
When 'minority' is a trick of definition The Boston Globe May 27, 2012
The affirmative-action myth The Boston Globe December 23, 2011
An 'end point' for race-based admissions The Boston Globe December 18, 2011
The left, the race card, and Herman Cain The Boston Globe October 9, 2011
Marriage cannot be redefined The Boston Globe June 29, 2011
Gingrich and 'the party of food stamps' The Boston Globe May 22, 2011
Retire the racial bean-counters The Boston Globe February 16, 2011
Commemorating secession, with sorrow and honesty The Boston Globe January 5, 2011
Is capital punishment racist? The Boston Globe December 5, 2010
Were the Founders hypocrites? The Boston Globe July 4, 2010
Rand Paul and the right to be odious The Boston Globe May 26, 2010
Law and disorder The Boston Globe May 9, 2010
No place for race The Boston Globe March 24, 2010
Harry Reid's racial imbroglio The Boston Globe January 13, 2010
Throw out the race card The Boston Globe December 12, 2009
'Kennedy' once meant 'tax-cutter' The Boston Globe August 30, 2009
Musings, random and otherwise The Boston Globe August 9, 2009
The 'racist' brand The Boston Globe June 10, 2009
More race talk is the last thing we need The Boston Globe February 25, 2009
The enemies of Jim Crow The Boston Globe February 15, 2009
Superstitions and skin color The Boston Globe January 14, 2009
Silver linings, even on the right The Boston Globe November 5, 2008
The myth of the coming white minority The Boston Globe August 20, 2008
It's still a question of Wright and wrong The Boston Globe March 19, 2008
The irrelevance of Obama's color The Boston Globe February 10, 2008
Bloodshed in black America is self-inflicted The Boston Globe September 5, 2007
We'd elect a black president? Old news The Boston Globe December 27, 2006
End to one troubling chapter, but a reopening of another one The Boston Globe November 7, 2006
Time to retire the race card The Boston Globe October 29, 2006
Historical amnesia at the NAACP The Boston Globe July 26, 2006
Slurs fly from the left The Boston Globe December 28, 2005
Musings, random and otherwise The Boston Globe December 23, 2004
The race-baiter in the campaign The Boston Globe November 9, 2003
A bum 'bigotry' rap on Rush The Boston Globe October 5, 2003
The death of American racism The Boston Globe July 13, 2003
Al Sharpton: The Democrat's David Duke The Boston Globe January 16, 2003
A disgrace to a grand old party The Boston Globe December 12, 2002
The new civil rights champions The Boston Globe July 11, 2002
Do these cabbies look like bigots? The Boston Globe July 12, 2001
'Defeated in the bedroom' The Boston Globe July 9, 2001
Who's white? Who's Hispanic? Who cares? The Boston Globe July 5, 2001
Renounce the racists, Senator Lott The Boston Globe April 19, 1999
It wasn't the N-word The Boston Globe February 1, 1999
Busing's legacy: racial isolation The Boston Globe January 7, 1999
Garrity's folly: 25 years after busing began The Boston Globe January 4, 1999
The real racism in 'Nappy Hair' The Boston Globe December 21, 1998
A black student destroyed by racism. Or was he? The Boston Globe September 28, 1998
Poisonous rhetoric from a would-be president The Boston Globe July 23, 1998
Kennedy's destructive hate crimes bill The Boston Globe July 20, 1998
Why Johnny can't read more than three 'white' books The Boston Globe March 19, 1998
Not another honor for W.E.B. DuBois The Boston Globe January 2, 1998
If race shouldn't count, then why count it? The Boston Globe November 18, 1997
At the right time, he did the right thing The Boston Globe September 2, 1997
Affirmative action can be fatal The Boston Globe August 14, 1997
Justice Brennan's legacy is an imperious judiciary The Boston Globe July 31, 1997
Mr. President, you're no racial healer The Boston Globe June 17, 1997
In D.C., a change of heart on the death penalty The Boston Globe May 20, 1997
Though officials deny it, apartheid rules at UMass-Amherst The Boston Globe May 8, 1997
Farrakhan and the slave traders The Boston Globe April 1, 1997
Bigotry in black and white The Boston Globe March 11, 1997
A lesson from Birmingham Jail The Boston Globe February 25, 1997
The self-esteem movement goes off the deep end The Boston Globe January 23, 1997
Lower the flag, South Carolina The Boston Globe December 3, 1996
The sky didn't fall on black congressional candidates The Boston Globe November 21, 1996
From whites-only trains to blacks-only classrooms The Boston Globe October 22, 1996
Four ways to jump-start the Kerry campaign The Boston Globe September 26, 1996
A nominee of a different color The Boston Globe September 10, 1996
California's colorblind proposition The Boston Globe August 27, 1996
African Americans find a home in the GOP The Boston Globe August 15, 1996
Of Hindu extremists and a prince's privacy The Boston Globe May 14, 1996
100 years after Plessy, and we're still counting by race The Boston Globe April 25, 1996
Silence on slavery The Boston Globe April 2, 1996
The flames of hatred in the Age of Farrakhan The Boston Globe December 14, 1995
Race doesn't matter The Boston Globe March 16, 1995
Racism is now the exception The Boston Globe August 23, 1994
When judges blunder, the remedy is impeachment The Boston Globe June 28, 1994
Look what's missing from Lani Guinier's book The Boston Globe June 2, 1994
Hotel was unfairly pilloried The Boston Globe May 26, 1994
Farrakhan: A hatred-hustling huckster The Boston Globe March 15, 1994
A blacker shade of racist The Boston Herald September 16, 1991
This apartheid foe says sanctions hurt The Boston Herald May 8, 1991

Book Reviews

Book Title Publication Date
What's Going On
by Nathan McCall
The Weekly Standard October 13, 1997

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