PanThe Washington Post... a standard-issue tirade against \'cancel culture,\' a Bill Maher routine without the jokes or a Tucker Carlson segment without the bow tie and smirk. The alleged twist here is that it’s a Black man saying it this time. Even that has been done better and less hamhandedly by the past few years of Dave Chappelle’s career ... He just seems to believe that making culturally conservative arguments while Black is inherently thoughtful, or at least provocative. It\'s not ... he warns that it is \'coming after your kids\' with a breathlessness that makes him sound less like a thoughtful academic and more like a conspiracy theorist looking for hidden critical race messages in the menus at Chuck E. Cheese. McWhorter never engages with any of the actual cultish movements that are threatening American democracy ... his work fits neatly within the long history of African American assimilationist thought ... If McWhorter’s readers dismiss him out of hand, it will be because of these sort of ahistorical arguments, not because of the color of his skin. They expose him not as a race traitor but as an unserious person, one either unwilling or incapable of contributing meaningfully to the discussion of race, politics and free speech in modern America.
Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington
RaveThe New York Times Book Review“The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist, by the Washington Post journalist Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington, a law professor at the University of Mississippi, avoids these generic problems. There is no murder mystery ... The bigotry in our criminal justice system is one of its key features, not an unfortunate bug. Mississippi wouldn’t allow quack science to convict the wrong people if white citizens primarily bore the burden. The namesake \'bad guys\' in this book are allowed to exist because their work puts black men behind bars, not in spite of it.\
