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Jenna Robinson of the Martin Center highlights one tool in the fight against college campus victimhood. Over the past decade, American moral culture has changed. The evidence of those changes…
That’s the title of a recent WSJ piece by Shelby Steele. Here are a few excerpts: How did the American left—conceived to bring more compassion and justice to the world—become…
Steele seeks to explain why liberals' spite, pathos, rage, incoherent protests, and ultimately, their reflexively choosing moral self-congratulation over actually lifting the poor and minorities.
At libertylawsite.org, W.B. Allen reviews a new book by Shelby Steele: Steele focuses on the rise of the paternalistic state, with the reaction to racial polarization as the main generator…
Shelby Steele‘s latest column at Carolina Journal Online focuses on the notion of conservatism as “counterculture.” He starts with the discussion of a speech he gave for a charity fund-raiser.…
The race grievance industry is alive and well in Durham as well as the nation. At Covenant Presbyterian Church in Durham on Wednesday the Rev. William Barber, president of the…
It’s in our very nature, says Robert Weissberg over at NRO’s Phi Beta Cons blog: Conservatives are forever complaining about campus PC, i.e., the forceful imposition an unreal political orthodoxy.…
I guess people will keep writing columns like Shelby Steele’s latest as long as President Obama tries to remain a “blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes…
This is the conclusion of Shelby Steele’s excellent WSJ article on the Gates/Crowley/Obama affair. To get the full impact, please read the entire article here. But then Skip Gates…
Shelby Steele, research fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, puts the Sotomayor nomination in perspective here. What is most notable about the Sotomayor nomination is its almost perfect predictability. Somehow…
Forbes prints this conversation with Steele. How did it feel to Steele to watch Obama, a man whose experience was in so many ways like his own, elected president? “It…
This LA Times article by Shelby Steele is the most insightful article on the election that you can read. Read it! But there is an inherent contradiction in all this.…