Politics in America, Races in America “The ‘authenticity’ that Trump’s followers so admire is factually wrong and morally repulsive” Author Drew Kaplan Date 21 November 2016 If racial injustice is considered to be monolithic and unchanging—omitting the context of individual...
Politics in America, Races in America “For Democrats, the politics of race and class are fraught” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 November 2016 For Democrats, the politics of race and class are fraught. If you focus insistently...
Races in America “’Working class’…once suggested productivity and sturdiness. Now it means downwardly mobile, poor, even pathological” Author Drew Kaplan Date 6 November 2016 …the “white working class.” At first, the term sounds more neutral than its predecessors—a...
Politics in America, Races in America “Trump’s core voters are revealed, by poll after poll, to be members of the white working class” Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 November 2016 Americans like Mark Frisbie have no foundation to stand on; they’re unorganized, unheard, unspoken...
Races in America “Racism ceased to be a matter of systems and policy and became a referendum on the rot of the individual soul” Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 September 2016 Racism ceased to be a matter of systems and policy and became a referendum...
America, Races in America “When you insist on obligations in addition to rights, you empower people” Author Drew Kaplan Date 12 September 2016 Why limit ourselves to the few words in the BLM platform that have to...
Races in America “…the belief now is that systemic racism is a national cancer that was excised long ago…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 September 2016 It’s not that anyone denies that institutional racism once existed. But the belief now...
Races in America, Semantics “This is the end result of redefining racism to mean malice in one’s heart” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 August 2016 Trump…seems to understand that charges of racism are essentially toothless, because the bar of...
Jews in America, Races in America “The history of the ‘Black-Jewish alliance’ is, of course, much more complicated than the narrative evoked by the march in Selma, and its ambiguities provide some helpful context for the current controversy” Author Drew Kaplan Date 31 August 2016 Tensions between Jewish liberals and black radicals are, of course, not new. It was...
Israel, Races in America, Zionism “While American Jewish leaders will use the platform to distance themselves from Black Lives Matter, the movement provides a lesson for how we will eventually reconcile our commitments and rescue our moral integrity” Author Drew Kaplan Date 29 August 2016 While American Jewish leaders will use the platform to distance themselves from Black Lives...