Samuel Kronen, Author at Areo

10 min

Politics

The Trouble with Critical Race Theory

The Trump administration’s recent executive order banning Critical Race Theory from all federally funded institutions has exposed this previously obscure legal theory to public scrutiny. The order calls on government…

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16 min

America’s Racial Reckoning: A Post-Mortem

Even before the cultural upheavals following the death of George Floyd, race in America was among our most polarizing issues. According to a 2019 analysis by Pew Research, political partisanship…

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11 min

Politics

The Complex Roots of Black Conservatism

Few fixtures on America’s political and cultural scene tell us more about the perilous state of our racial discourse than the phenomenon of black conservatism. While virtually every other confluence…

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10 min

Politics

Rethinking Race

At the beginning of the twentieth century, to be a progressive, right-thinking American intellectual was to believe in the genetic superiority of certain racial groups. Otherwise known as eugenics or…

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8 min

Culture & Media

James Baldwin’s Ambiguous Legacy

Whether it is conservatives using Martin Luther King Jr.’s colorblind principles to argue against progressive anti-racism, while ignoring his condemnations of white moderates, or leftists using the legacy of Frederick…

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7 min

Politics

The Vicious Cycle Of Racial Polarization

If it weren’t already obvious from the recent mass protests and riots across America and the world in response to the gruesome police killing of George Floyd, race is one…

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8 min

Politics

Poetic Truth: Left, Right And Center

The concept of poetic truth—first developed by Shelby Steele—refers to the fallacy that erases the distinction between fact and narrative. Derived from the concept of poetic license, in which a…

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6 min

Politics

Is There A New Third Way?

When Senator Bernie Sanders recently dropped out of the 2020 presidential race, many wondered how, despite his initial surge in the polls, he was defeated by Joe Biden, a gaffe-prone…

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7 min

Politics

The Asymmetry of Racial Discourse

No political topic can turn friends into strangers and strangers into enemies as predictably, swiftly and decisively as that of race in America.

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5 min

Culture & Media

“Lying Bastard” by Clint Margrave. Book Review.

Grim, uncouth, and hilarious: these are the adjectives I’d use to describe Lying Bastard, the upcoming debut novel of prolific poet and polemicist Clint Margrave. The story follows the mindscape…

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4 min

Psychology

The Coronavirus Won’t Change Us Much At All

Photo by Laura Ockel The global pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus has changed the world. At least, that is what we are being told, day after day, by political pundits…

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8 min

Politics

#ItsOkayToBeWhite

#ItsOkayToBeWhite has recently been trending on Twitter. While apparently posted initially in reference to the skin tone of Korean pop stars, the hashtag has swiftly and predictably become another cudgel for…

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Samuel Kronen

The Trouble with Critical Race Theory

America’s Racial Reckoning: A Post-Mortem

The Complex Roots of Black Conservatism

Rethinking Race

James Baldwin’s Ambiguous Legacy

The Vicious Cycle Of Racial Polarization

Poetic Truth: Left, Right And Center

Is There A New Third Way?

The Asymmetry of Racial Discourse

“Lying Bastard” by Clint Margrave. Book Review.

The Coronavirus Won’t Change Us Much At All

#ItsOkayToBeWhite

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