He could have pulled out calipers and started measuring her skull to make sure she was suitably Germanic with no trace of Irish and she'd still be in doubt. I am not actually sure what it would take to convince some of them that racism exists.

Her writing makes my struggles with postdoc applications feel really fair...

"Yes, he did rank races by intelligence. No, I never saw any racism, what do you mean?"

So committed to using that photo that she has abandoned any desire to make the book's cover even remotely aesthetically appealing.

Earlier this week I was talking to students about colonialism and the terrifying shock of return. I think for America, we need to consider that the colonised populations are within their national borders and the terrifying shock of return will be when what folks see on TV happens to them.

The core goal of the centrist liberal is not actually to achieve anything beyond a smug sense of intellectual superiority and moral neutrality.

Apparently - "This was a remarkably stupid move on my part, given that London, and by extension Heathrow, is located in the failing formerly-developed country known as “the UK”." Which, at least to my mind, is not the reason it was a remarkably stupid move.

It's not just him. I bet if you spent an hour looking closely at any Minister, you'd see a lot of issues. Too much is ignored and too much can be covered up by insistence on community votes for things which obviously have no community issues.