Two minute book reviews

Appearing recently in Chronicles Magazine

Amy Wax’s book on remedies to racial inequality: “It is a lamentable statement about contemporary American culture that the most widely-read book written by a law professor on racial disparities is almost certainly Michelle Alexander’s egregious The New Jim Crow. Instead, it should be Amy Wax’s courageous Race, Wrongs, and Remedies…”

Paul Hollander’s devastating critique of Western intellectual fans of communist states: “I periodically reread Paul Hollander’s magisterial study of the Western intellectual embrace of murderous totalitarian ideologies, Political Pilgrims. Every time, some new insight comes to me from the work…”

One of the latest bits of ahistorical foolishness from Ibram X. Kendi: “Nietzsche described a psychopathology called ressentiment in which an outside tormentor is perceived as causing all of life’s misfortunes. Readers would do well to keep their Nietzsche close to hand while thumbing through the essays of antiracist activists in this book…”