May 6, 2021

NOTE: This chronologically ordered bibliography is not intended to be exhaustive, but suggestions of excellent additional items for inclusion are welcome. A major criterion for including items is that they are supportive of the letter and spirit of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the California Constitution. The list will be periodically updated. If your suggested item is behind a paywall, please, if possible, obtain and send a pdf of it to hurlbert@sdsu.edu

Before 2019

The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race In America,  Shelby Steele, Harper Perennial, 1990

Illiberal Education: The Politics of Race & Sex in Campus, Dinesh D’Souza, The Free Press, 1991

One by One from the Inside Out : Essays and Reviews on Race and Responsibility in America, Glenn Loury, Free Press, 1995

Proposition 209: Text of Proposed Law, General Election Ballot Pamphlet, November 5, 1996

Argument in Favor of Proposition 209, Pete Wilson, Ward Connerly & Pamela Lewis, General Election Ballot Pamphlet, November 5, 1996

The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society Revised and Enlarged Edition, Arthur Schlesinger Jr, Norton, 1998

Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education, third edition, Roger Kimball, Ivan R. Dee, 1998

What’s Wrong with Critical Race Theory: Reopening the Case for Middle Class Values, Daniel Subotnik, Cornell Journal of Law and Public Policy, Spring 1998

America: A Nation of Equals, Ward Connerly, Speech at Harvard University, America RadioWorks, April 6, 1998

The Quest for Cosmic Justice, Thomas Sowell, Simon & Schuster, 1999

Why Anti-Racism Will Fail, Rev. Thandeka, 1999 Unitarian Universalist General Assembly

Why Anti-Racism Will Fail: A Response, Rev. David Bumbaugh, Anti-racism Digital Library, 1999

Creating Equal: My Fight Against Race Preferences, Ward Connerly, Encounter Books, 2000

The Burden of Bad Ideas: How Modern Intellectuals Misshape Our Society, Heather Mac Donald, Ivan R. Dee, 2000

Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America, John McWhorter, Perennial, 2001

Diversity: The Invention of a Concept, Peter Wood, Encounter Books, 2003

Winning the Race: Beyond the Crisis in Black America, John McWhorter, Gotham Books, 2005

White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era, Shelby Steele, Harper Perennial, 2006

Obama Issues Executive Order Mandating Racial Favoritism, Carl Horowitz, National Legal Policy Center, August 26, 2011

Intellectuals and Society, revised and enlarged edition, Thomas Sowell, Basic Books, 2011

Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed (60min video),Jason Riley, talk at Heritage Foundation, June 23, 2014

Black Lives Matter, Walter Williams, Creators Syndicate, May 6, 2015

The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe, Heather Mac Donald, Encounter Books, 2016

An Empirical Analysis of Racial Differences in Police Use of Force, Roland Fryer, Journal of Political Economy, 2016

Conservatives, Black Lives Matter, Racism, Larry Elder & Dave Rubin on The Rubin Report, January 15, 2016

The Demagogues’ War on Cops, Thomas Sowell, National Review, July 12, 2016

Why Diversity Programs Fail, Frank Dobbin & Alexandra Kalev, Harvard Business Review, July-August 2016

Does Black Success Matter?, Thomas Sowell, Townhall.com, August 16, 2016

The Lies Told by the Black Lives Matter Movement, Heather Mac Donald, Washington Examiner, September 3, 2016

Intermarriage in the U.S. 50 Years After Loving v. Virginia: One-in-six newlyweds are married to someone of a different race or ethnicity, Gretchen Livingston and Anna Brown, Pew Research Center, May 18, 2017

The Moment LARRY ELDER changed DAVE RUBINS Mind Forever (Systemic Racism) (8mm video), PhilosophyInsights, May 25, 2017

Systemic racism is so rare in America, the media just can’t stop lying about it, David Clarke, The Hill, November 13, 2017

Diversity is a Dangerous Set-up: Recreational antiracism won’t change anything: a review of Jonathan Kahn’s critique of implicit bias discourse, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Medium.com, January 24, 2018 

Identity U.: The purpose of the university is no longer the pursuit of knowledge, Heather Mac Donald, Eye on the News, City Journal, February 1, 2018

The Myth of Systemic Racism (Pt. 2), Coleman Hughes interviewed by Dave Rubin, The Rubin Report, October 11, 2018

San Diego State University: The Depressing Face of the Future Of “Diversity”?, John Rosenberg, Discriminations, November 11, 2018

Loyalty Oaths, Diversity Mandates, Faculty ‘Training’ at San Diego State, John Rosenberg, Minding the Campus, November 13, 2018

Has Anti-Racism Become as Harmful as Racism?, John McWhorter vs. Nikhil Singh (108min video), Reason TV, November 30, 2018

How Anti Racism Hurts Black People (14min video), John McWhorter, Heritage Foundation, December 2, 2018

From Diverse Professors to Professors of Diversity, John Rosenberg, Martin Center for Academic Renewal, December 7, 2018

The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture, Heather Mac Donald, St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018

2019

Discrimination and Disparities, revised and enlarged edition, Thomas Sowell, Basic Books, 2019

The Gadfly Papers: Three Inconvenient Essays by One Pesky Minister, Todd Eklof, 2019

Thomas Sowell on the Origins of Economic Disparities (46min video), Interview with Peter Robinson, Hoover Institution, May 17, 2009

AACE Denounces the New York City Department of Education’s Anti-Asian Rhetoric, Asian American Coalition for Education Press Release, June 12, 2019

California’s proposed new ethnic studies curriculum is jargon-filled and all-too-PC, Loss Angeles Times Editorial Board, August 4, 2019

A Glimpse at the Intersectional Left’s Political Endgame, Andrew Sullivan, Intelligencer (New York Magazine), November 15, 2019

How to Be an Anti-Intellectual: A lauded book about antiracism is wrong on its facts and in its assumptions, Coleman Hughes, City Journal, October 27, 2019 [review of the book How to Be an Antiracist, by Ibram X. Kendi]

America’s Religion of Anti-Racism Reaches Peak Absurdity, Heather Mac Donald, The Hill, October 29, 2019

Cerberus and the Current Unitarian Universalist Racial Crisis, Rev. Thandeka, November 30, 2019

Race, Power & Politics: Coleman Hughes Dismantles Systemic Racism In America (69min video)), This is 42’s Guide to Find Meaning, December 3, 2019

2020

Cancel Culture: The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process, Alan Dershowitz, Hot Books, 2020

The new racism has infected society, Walter Williams, The-Dispatch.com, January 10, 2020

Has Anti-Racism Become A New Religion? (61min video), John McWhorter interviewed by Coleman Hughes, Conversations with Coleman, January 15, 2020

‘A dream as old as the American dream’: Embrace black patriotism over victimization, Clarence Page, Washington Examiner, February 13, 2020

Critical race theory’s toxic, destructive impact on America, Carol Swain, Washington Examiner, February 14, 2020

Black law scholar explains how critical race theory is a ‘dangerous and destructive ideology’, Carol Swain, The College Fix, February 25, 2020

Cops and Race (71min video), Glenn Loury & John McWhorter on The Glenn Show, May 28, 2020

Riots Invite Crime, Not Justice: Blacks end up suffering more when hostility to police makes it impossible to maintain urban order, Robert Woodson, Wall Street Journal, May 31, 2020

I Must Object: A rebuttal to Brown University’s letter on racism in the United States, Glenn Loury, City Journal, Summer 2020

The Mandatory Banality of University Presidents, Peter Wood, Minding the Campus, June 2, 2020

The True Plight of Black Americans, Walter Williams, Townhall.com, June 10, 2020

Eight Big Reasons Critical Race Theory Is Terrible for Dealing with Racism, James Lindsay, New Discourses, June 12, 2020

Black Lives Matter Hurts Blacks, Derryck Green, Ricochet.com, June 12, 2020

Stories and Data: Reflections on Race, Riots, and Police, Coleman Hughes, City Journal, June 14, 2020

Black Professor to Mark Levin: No Pattern of Epidemic Racism Among Police, Wilfred Reilly interviewed by Mark Levin, PJ Media, June 15, 2020

The lie of systemic racism, Henry Fowler, Bitterroot Star, June 23, 2020

Scheming to Revive Racial Preferences in California, Gail Heriot, Minding the Campus, June 23, 2020

How Leftists’ Critical Race Theory Poisons Our Discussion of Racism, Ellie Krasne, Heritage Foundation, June 29, 2020

Conformity to a Lie: Academia’s monolithic belief in systemic racism will further erode American institutions and the principles of our civilization, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, Summer 2020

The problem of ‘anti-racism’: The product of the woke crusade will not be a less racist America but a more polarized one, Ben Shapiro, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 4, 2020

Don’t play a game you can’t win: What is being demanded of us by the ‘anti-racism’ professors and others is a racialist hell of a fresh kind, Douglas Murray, The Spectator, July 1, 2020

The moral case against Black Lives Matter (36min video), Coleman Hughes interviewed on Unherd.com, July 2, 2020

The Glenn Show: Black Faces, Black Interests (64min video), Carol Swain interviewed by Glenn Beck, July 6, 2020

How the Left Exploits Antiracism to Attack Capitalism, Ryan McMaken, Mises Wire, July 7, 2020

Why Nobody is Systemically Racist, James Lindsay, New Discourses, July 9, 2020

The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility, John McWhorter, The Atlantic, July 15, 2020

What To Read Instead Of ‘White Fragility’, Mark Hemingway, The Federalist, July 15, 2020

Is the Anti-Racism Training Industry Just Peddling White Supremacy?, Jonathan Chait, Intellligencer (New York Magazine), July 16, 2020

Cornell University takes a major step towards compulsory racial activism for faculty, students, and staff, William Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, July 16, 2020 [“Proposed initiatives include an “educational requirement on racism, bias and equity for all Cornell students,” a new Anti-Racism Center, “an institution-wide, themed semester … focus[ed] on issues of racism,” and mandatory faculty participation in “programming” regarding “race, racism and colonialism in the United States.”]

This ‘anti-racism education’ sure looks awfully … racist, Jonah Goldberg, New York Post, July 19, 2020

Saying No to Critical Race Theory (74min audio), James Lindsay, New Discourses, July 20, 2020

Proposal to revoke emeritus professor status brings ‘cancel culture’ debate to SDSU, Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, July 20, 2020

“Anti-Racism” Is Racism in Disguise, Hans Bader, Bacon’s Rebellion, July 22, 2020

Why the lie of “systemic racism” actually hurts Blacks, Stu Bykofsky, July 22, 2020

The ‘anti-racist’ drive to turn schools into woke propaganda mills, Max Eden, New York Post, June 22, 2020

The ‘Systemic Racism’ Canard, Peter Kirsanow, National Review, July 23, 2020

Ibram X. Kendi, Prophet of Anti-racism, Christopher Caldwell, National Review, July 23, 2020

Wokeism at Work: How “Critical Theory” and Anti-Racism Training Divide America (75min video), Angela Sailor, Mike Gonzalez, James Lindsay & Chris Rufo, Heritage Foundation, July 24, 2020

America Isn’t a Racist Country: If we’re going to have a national conversation, we need a bold, spirited defense of our progress, Ward Connerly, Wall Street Journal, July 24, 2020

Damaging ‘Anti-Racism Training’ on Taxpayers’ Tab Inexcusable, Diane Diamond, Noozhawk (Santa Barbara), July 25, 2020

On Systemic Racism: A useful concept misapplied, Robert Verbruggen, National Review, July 9, 2020

The ‘systemic racism’ canard: ‘Racial disparity’ has morphed almost imperceptibly into racism, Peter Kirsanov, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 28, 2020

According to Ward Connerly, there is no such thing as institutional racism in America, Ward Connerly, Washington Times, July 28, 2020

Why I Started The Equiano Project: Identity politics has failed us – it’s time for better ideas, Inaya Folarin Iman, The Equiano Project, August 2020

3 Key Concepts That Woke ‘Anti-Racists’ Believe, Jarrett Stepman, The Daily Signal, August 10, 2020 [Review of How to Be An Antiracist, by I. Kendi, and White Fragility, by R. Diangelo]

Anti-Racist” Racists, John Stossel, Larry Elder et al., August 11, 2020

150 Law School Deans Ask ABA to Mandate Anti-Racism Training, Hans Bader, Minding the Campus, August 11, 2020

How Racist Are Universities, Really?: Hyperbolic accusations do more harm than good, Randall Kennedy, Chronicle of Higher Education, August 12, 2020

Introducing anti-racism training into schools would be bad idea, Roberta Schaefer, Worcester Telegram & Gazette, August 17, 2020

Anti-Racism’s Threat to Academic Freedom, John Rosenberg, Minding the Campus, August 18, 2020

Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart: What a viral story reveals about contemporary leftist discourse, Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, August 20, 2020

How Not to Be an Antiracist: The focus should be on invidious discrimination, not statistical disparities and social change, Kenneth Marcus, Wall Street Journal, August 24, 2020

It is a ‘lie’ that America is racist, Nikki Haley, Politico, August 24, 2020

The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations at Rutgers, Richard Cravatts, Minding the Campus, July 25, 2020

“Get the facts: systemic racism is a lie”, Edward Gallagher, The Bethlehem Gadfly, August 30, 2020

The Bias Fallacy: It’s the achievement gap, not systemic racism, that explains demographic disparities in education and employment, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, Autumn 2020

The myth of “systemic racism”, Christopher Arend, CalCoastNews, September 2, 2020

Reject state-sanctioned discrimination, reject Proposition 16, Betty Chu, Orange County Register, September 4, 2020

Saying America is systemically racist is a destructive lie, Dan Fagan, MustReadAlaska, September 7, 2020

The Trouble with Disparity, Walter Benn Michaels & Adolph Reed Jr., Nonsite.org, September 10, 2020

The Trouble with Critical Race Theory, Samuel Kronen, Areo Magazine, September 11, 2020

Antiracism at Cornell, John Hinderaker, Powerlineblog.com, September 12, 2020

Diversity is Important, Diversity-Related Training is Terrible, Musa al-Gharbi, Heterodox Academy, September 16, 2020

The ‘Systemic Racism’ Dodge, Harvey Mansfield, Wall Street Journal, September 18, 2020

Coalition demands illegal racial discrimination at Cornell, Hans Bader, Minding the Campus, September 19, 2020

Anti-Racism and Illiberal Education, Peter Wood & Steve Hayward, Curriculum Vitae Episode #52 (podcast), National Association of Scholars, September 25, 2020

The Cultural Revolution: Coming to a Campus Near You, John Staddon, Minding the Campus, September 21, 2020

Britain is Being Racialised by the Left Through Toxic Identity Politics & Victimhood Mentality, Inaya Folarin Iman interviewed by Peter Whittle, New Culture Forum, September 25, 2020

Critical race theorists are ‘destroying the US’ from the inside (13min video), Christopher Rufo interviewed by Sky News Australia, September 26, 2020

Critical Race Theory and the Decline of American Justice, Carol Swain, Tennessee Star, September 28, 2020

Executive Order 13950: Combating Race and Sex Stereotyping, Donald J. Trump, Executive Office of the President, Federal Register, Sept 28, 2020

Critical Race Theory and New Racism: Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here, Ray Sanchez, Minding the Campus, September 29, 2020

Woke ‘Anti-Racist’ Ibram Kendi Levels Racist Attack at Amy Coney Barrett, Jarrett Stepman, The Daily Signal, September 30, 2020

Stamped a Remix: A Partial List of Errors, David Bernstein, The Volokh Conspiracy, October 2, 2020 [Review of book by Jason Reynolds & Ibram Kendi]

Systemic racism and today’s California — Why voters should reject restoring racial preferences, Ward Connerly, FOX News, October 6, 2020

A Brief Critique of Critical Race Theory, Tom Ascol, Founders Ministries, October 7, 2020

Carol Swain Explains Her New Initiative, Unity Training Solutions Which Provides an Alternative to Critical Race Theory, Patrick Leahy, The Tennessee Star, November 6, 2020

On California’s ballot, an invitation to legalize discrimination: Will voters let government revert to making judgments based on skin color?, Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe, October 7, 2020

Systemic Racism, Trump and BLM (58min video), Glenn Loury interviewed by John Anderson, JohnAnderson.com, October 8, 2020

Colleges pause diversity training after Trump order against ‘race or sex stereotyping or scapegoating’, College Fix Staff, The College Fix, October 9, 2020

California Democrats Pushing for Actual Systemic Racism, Tucker Carlson & Ward Connerly NO on Prop16 (4min video), FOX News, October 9, 2020

“This gov’t stands unequivocally against Critical Race Theory” (8min video), Kemi Badenoch, UK House of Commons, October 20, 2020

Teachers Can and Should Critique the Antiracism Ideology, Laura McDermott, Project Forever Free, October 23, 2020

It’s déjà vu for affirmative action proponents, Dan Walters, CalMatters, October 27, 2020

Fifteen Questions About Prop. 16 and Prop. 209,  Richard Sander, University of Chicago Law Review Online, October 30, 2020

Critical Race Training or Civil Rights Law: We Can’t Have Both, George La Noue, Law & Liberty, Nov 4, 2020

Argument Against Proposition 16, Ward Connerly, Gail Heriot & Betty Tom Chu, Official Voter Information Guide, October 1996

Deep blue and overwhelmingly against racial preferences: What’s going on in California, Ward Connerly, USA Today, November 13, 2020

Why higher education is the most important battleground for America’s soul, Jennifer Kabbany, The College Fix, November 16, 2020 [“And we wonder why America is so bitterly divided today? We shouldn’t. The root cause can be traced directly to the corruption within higher education.”]

Stanford apologizes for telling departments to follow Trump executive order on race and sex stereotyping, College Fix Staff,The College Fix, November 23, 2020

Black Fragility? A bestselling book offers a prescription for race relations that casts whites as sinners and blacks as children, Coleman Hughes, City Journal, November 29, 2020. [review of the book White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo]

 Why racial and ethnic minorities must speak out against reverse racism and the progressive agenda, Dr. Ming Wang, Conversations with Dr. Carol Swain, December 3, 2020

THE WHITEST PRIVILEGE: San Diego school district tells teachers “you are racist”, Christopher Rufo, Newsletter, December 3, 2020

The ‘anti-racism’ movement is sowing deeper divisions, Andrew Doyle, The Spectator, December 5, 2020

The soft bigotry of “anti-racist” expectations is damaging to Black and White kids alike, Ian Rowe, USA Today, December 6, 2020

Critical Race Theory, the New Intolerance, and Its Grip on America, Jonathan Butcher & Mike Gonzalez, Heritage Foundation, December 7, 2020

Chloé Valdary with Chris Rufo on Critical Race Theory (61min video), Discovery Institute, December 8, 2020

Revealed: Critical Race Theory’s infiltration into UK Universities, Rahul Karnik, The Equiano Project, December 8, 2020

Critical Race Theory: On the New Ideology of Race (104min video), A discussion among Jason Riley, John McWhorter, Randall Kennedy, Christopher Rufo, & Ralph Banks, Manhattan Institute, December 16, 2020

“Anti-Racist” Education Is Neither: Well-meaning Americans are being suckered into an illiberal political cabal, Frederick Hess & Grant Addison, The American Mind, Claremont Institute, December 18, 2020

How To Be A Racist, Samuel Sey, SlowToWrite.com, December 19, 2020 [Review of “How To Be An Antiracist,” by Ibram Kendi]

Why Anti-Racism Trainings Fail (w/ Chloé Valdary) (90min audio), Uncertain Things, December 19, 2020

The Case for Color-Blindness (90min video), Coleman Hughes, Program on Constitutional Government at Harvard, December 22, 2020

Watch Glenn Loury Call ‘Anti-Racism’s’ Bluff, David Marcus, The Federalist, December 30, 2020

‘Anti-Racism’: Creating More Racists?, John Dashe, The Fenwick Review, December 31, 2020

Reflecting on 25 Years of Research Using Implicit Measures: Recommendations for Their Future Us, Pieter Van Dessel, Jamie Cummins, Sean Hughes, Sarah Kasran, Femke Cathelyn & Tal Moran, Social Cognition, December 2020

2021

The Enemy Within: How a Totalitarian Movement is Destroying America, David Horowitz, Regnery Publishing, 2021

Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy,  Andy Ngo, Center Street, 2021

Case Against the New Censorship: Protecting Free Speech from Big Tech, Progressives, and Universities, Alan Dershowitz, Hot Books, 2021

Smith College and the bravery of Jodi Shaw: Confronting anti-racism groupthink at a small liberal-arts college, Jenny Holland, The Spectator, January 5, 2021

Memorializing A Dragon-Slaying and A Civil Rights Movement Reborn, Stuart Hurlbert, Minding the Campus, January 10, 2021

The Political Unfolding of California’s Racial Reckoning: From Affirmative Action to Critical Race Theory, Wenyuan Wu, Minding the Campus, January 11, 2021

Minority Parents Fight the Educrats Erasing Gifted Education In the Name of ‘Antiracism’ , Asra Q. Nomani, The Federalist, January 18, 2021

“Antiracism” Comes to the Heartland, Christopher F. Rufo, City Journal, January 19, 2021

CALIFORNIANS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS POSITION LETTER AGAINST AB105, Wenyuan Wu, Letter to members of the California State Assembly, January 19, 2021

States Can Reject Critical Race Theory, Max Eden, City Journal, January 20, 2021

Systemic Racism and Sexism Are Now Mandatory, Philip Carl Salzman, January 20, 2021

The Everyday Consequences Of Critical Race Theory And Cancel Culture (incl. 42min audio), The Federalist Staff with Christopher Rufo, The Federalist, January 27, 2021

Schools Must Resist Destructive Anti-racist Demands, John McWhorter, The Atlantic, January 29, 2021

California ethnic studies curriculum distorts history to conform to Critical Race Theory, Jerry Coyne, WhyEvolutionIsTrue, February 1, 2021

Why Are Progressives So Illiberal?, Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness, January 31, 2021

‘Systemic Racism’ and the Biden Administration, Peter Kirsanow, National Review, February 2, 2021

Legal Insurrection launches ‘Critical Race Training In Higher Education’ website, William Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, February 2, 2021

A hole in the heart of antiracism training: Reducing people to caricatures and abstractions pushes us all further apart, Chloe Valdary, Boston Globe, February 3, 2021

Activist Parent Reveals the Poison of Critical Race Theory Education (30min video), Beth Feeley, Conversations With Dr. Carol Swain, February 4, 2021

Tracking Critical Race Theory, Peter Kirsanov, National Review, February 5, 2021

Our Animal Farm: The Left’s 1960s dream is America’s 2021 nightmare, Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness, February 7, 2021

“Equity”?, John Rosenberg, Minding the Campus, February 8, 2021 [Commentary on Biden’s “Executive Order on Advancing Racial Equity…”]

Antiracism: An Insidious Path to the Closed Society, Richard Reinsch, Law & Liberty, February 12, 2021

Racism Reimagined: How Critical Race Theory Imperils the American Workplace, Jim Stroud, Recruiting Daily, February 18, 2021

Cornell charges students $1,800 for racially-segregated rock climbing class, frantically scrubs website when confronted, Matthew Wilson, Campus Reform, February 18, 2021

The Parent-Led Challenge to Critical Race Theory (64min video), Coleman Hughes interviewing John Yoo & Christopher Rufo, Manhattan Institute, February 18, 2021

 ‘Greatest threat’ to society is ‘diversity, equity, inclusion industry’ (5min video), Carol Swain, FOX News, February 19, 2021

Coca-Cola has employees take training on how to ‘be less white’ to combat racism, Michael Lee, Washington Examiner, February 20, 2021

So is there actually systemic racism in our country? (46min video), Carol Swain on the Candance Owen Show, Prager U, February 21, 2021

‘Divisive and offensive’ race theory training forced on San Diego County healthcare workers, Tori Richards, Washington Examiner, February 22, 2021

CACAGNY Denounces Critical Race Theory as Hateful Fraud, Chinese American Citizens Alliance Greater New York, February 23, 2021

Students Weigh in on Critical Race Theory Database Launched by Law School Professor Angela Bunay, Cornell Daily Sun, February 24, 2021

“Systemic Racism,” “Equity,” and the End of Civil Rights, John Rosenberg, Minding the Campus, February 24, 2021

States should ban racist falsehoods from public school curriculums, such as critical race theory, Hans Bader, Liberty Unyielding, February 27, 2021

Should I Get Canceled for Telling the Emperor He Has No Clothes On?, Wenyuan Wu, Minding the Campus, March 1, 2021

The unintentional racism of anti-racism advocates, Glenn Loury & John McWhorter, The Glenn Show. March 2, 2021

Critical Race Fragility: The Left has denounced the “war on woke,” but it is afraid to defend the principles of critical race theory in public debate, Christopher Rufo, City Journal, March 2, 2021

Anti Racism and Humanism, Two Competing Visions (120min video), Coleman Hughes at Lafayette College, February 26, 2019

Systemic Racism – the Big Lie, Scott Johnston, The Naked Dollar, March 3, 2021

Antiracism in Black & White (135min video), James Lindsay interviewed by John Wood, Jr., Braver Angels, March 4, 2021

‘Equity’ Is a Mandate to Discriminate, Charles Lipson, Wall Street Journal, March 4, 2021

Illinois Teachers Shamed For Color Of Their Skin In Taxpayer-Sponsored ‘Antiracist’ Training, Gabe Kaminsky, The Federalist, March 5, 2021

Dividing by Race Comes to Grade School, Bion Bartning, Wall Street Journal, March 7, 2021

First Major City-Level Pay Gap Study Tells Inconvenient Truths—CFER Debunks Lies and Mistruths Promoted by San Diego Mayor and the Media, CFER Press Release, March 8, 2021

Explaining Income Inequality in San Diego’s City Workforce: Myths and Inconvenient Truths Regarding the First Major U.S. City Developing a Pay Equity Study, Wenyuan Wu, CFER Research Paper, March 2021

Asian Americans Emerging as a Strong Voice Against Critical Race Theory,  Newsweek, Helen Raleigh, March 9, 2021

The Miseducation of America’s Elites: Affluent parents, terrified of running afoul of the new orthodoxy in their children’s private schools, organize in secret, Bari Weiss, City Journal, March 9, 2021

CFER and PLF Prompted CalOSBA to Abide by the State Constitution, Press Release, Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, March 10, 2021

This so-called ‘anti-racism’ ideology is itself deeply racist, Quin Hillyer, Washington Examiner, March 10, 2021

Birth of a new resistance: Parents mobilize to tackle woke ideology, Barbara Kay, National Post, March 12, 2021

Critical Race Theory Is Dangerous. Here’s How to Fight It, Samantha Harris, National Review, March 13, 2021

Racist mathematics or ‘racism propounded as antiracism’?, M.K. Sprinkle, Carroll County Times, March 13, 2021

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion — Manipulating Words for Political Goals, George Leef, National Review, March 15, 2021

CFER Slams UC Berkeley Chancellor for Promoting Unlawful Racial Quotas, Press Release, Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, March 15, 2021

John McWhorter — The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and their Threat to a Progressive America (77min video), Michael Shermer Show Episode #165, March 16, 2021

Largest School District In North Carolina Urges Teachers To Ignore Parents’ Pushback And Teach ‘Antiracism’, Marlo Safi, Daily Caller, March 18, 2021

The Weaponization of Race and the Asian Model Minority Myth, Wenyuan Wu, Legal Insurrection, March 19, 2021

Higher Ed Approaches the Antiracism Training Abyss, William Jacobson, RealClearPolitics, March 19, 2021

Used to Be UU: The Systematic Attack on UU Liberalism, What You Need to Know, What You Need to Do, Frank Casper, The Fifth Principle Project, March 20, 2021 [Synopsis of book by that title by Frank Casper & Jay Kiskel]

Identity politics do more harm than good, Wenyuan Wu, Orange County Register, March 23, 2021

Critical Race Theory Would Not Solve Racial Inequality: It Would Deepen It, Christopher Rufo, The Heritage Foundation, March 23, 2021

The One-Party Orthodoxy of Equity and Anti-Racism, Ray Sanchez, Minding the Campus, March 24, 2021

The Critical Race Training Juggernaut: Has It Reached Your School District Yet ?, Joanne Florino, The Philanthropy Round Table, March 24, 2021

California officials fund welfare programs that exclude whites and men, Hans Bader, Liberty Unyielding, March 26, 2021

Is Racism Moral Now?, Victor Davis Hanson, The Independent Institute, March 30, 2021

Virginia County Pays $15,000 to Racist Diversity Trainer for 1 Hour Seminar, Hans Bader, Minding the Campus, March 31, 2021

Critical Race Theory: Ideology, Practices, and Ways to Push Back, Californians for Equal Rights Foundation, Spring 2021

RI State Rep. Patricia Morgan: Keep Critical Race Theory Out Of Schools, “it is a step backwards for our country”, William Jacobson, Legal Insurrection, April 1, 2021

California’s ‘Ethnic Studies’ Opens Door to Critical Race Theory Indoctrination Throughout Public Schools, Anna Mussmann, The Federalist, April 5, 2021

Don’t believe the ‘big lie’ that police are racist, Peter Bronson, The Enquirer, April 7, 2021

CFER Submits First Ever Civil Rights Complaint against San Diego Unified School District for Unlawful Critical Race Theory Training,  CFER Press Release, April 9, 2021

COMPLAINT of CALIFORNIANS FOR EQUAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION  v.  San Diego Unified School District  FOR UNLAWFUL RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN THE TEACHER & STAFF TRAINING PROCESS, Complaint filed with SD Unified School District, San Diego County Office of Education, and U.S. Office for Civil Rights, 115pp, April 2021

No evidence of anti-Black systemic racism, Larry Elder, Joplin Globe, April 12, 2021

Rhode Island wasted vaccine by excluding whites from big COVID vaccination event, Hans Bader, Liberty Unyielding, April 12, 2021

Echoes of Mao: Weaponizing Schools With ‘Critical Race Theory’, Alex Newman, The Epoch Times, April 13, 2021

NYC teacher: We’re damaging kids with ‘Critical Race Theory’, Paul Rossi, New York Post, April 13, 2021

Statement of Prof. William A. Jacobson Opposing Cornell Faculty Senate Proposed Critical Race Mandates, Legal Insurrection, April 14, 2021 [“These Proposals both individually and collectively impose an ideological orthodoxy and adherence to a Critical Race Theory (CRT) view of the world, in violation of the educational purpose of the University and faculty academic freedom”]

Critical Race Theory: What It Is and How to Fight It, Christopher Rufo, Imprimis, April 18, 2021

Biden Set to Push Critical Race Theory on U.S. Schools, Stanley Kurtz, National Review, April 19, 2021

Nextdoor launches anti-racism notification to prevent discriminatory language, Team Nextdoor, Nextdoor.com, April 19, 2021

‘White Terror Is As American As The Stars And Stripes’: How The Left Is Answering Ibram Kendi’s Call For Racial Strife, Ben Weingarten, The Federalist, April 19, 2021

UT Austin Approves Orwellian “Strategic Plan for Faculty Diversity, Equity, and Inclusivity”, Louis Bonham, National Association of Scholars, April 19, 2021

Both data and anecdote prove ‘systemic racism’ is a lie, Zachary Faria, Washington Examiner, April 21, 2021

Biden buys into the left’s great lie, David Marcus, New York Post, April 21, 2021

Where Can You Send Your Children to University?, Philip Carl Salzman, Minding the Campus, April 21, 2021 [“During the past four decades, liberal arts education was cancelled, and is now deceased.”]

Parents Organize to Push Back Against Critical Race Theory, Petr Svab, The EpochTimes, April 22, 2021

My Response To Ambrose University, Samuel Sey, SlowToWrite.com, April 23, 2021

Judicial Watch Fights Hard Left “Critical Race Theory”, Micah Morrison, Judicial Watch, April 23, 2021

Inside the growing underground network of parents fighting ‘anti-racism’ in NYC schools, Dana Kennedy, April 24, 2021

Police Systemic Racism Is a Dangerous Lie (60min video), Larry Elder interviewed by Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster, Triggernometry, April 25, 2021

The country’s lie of systemic racism, Michael Reagan, Albany Herald, April 25, 2021

The New Antiracism Is the Old Racism, Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness, April 25, 2021

The New Antiracism Is the Old Racism: The benchmarks of the Black Lives Matter and affiliated woke movements are overt racism, systemic untruth, and the hypocritical privilege of their elite architects, Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness, April 25, 2021

Biden Embraces Critical Race Theory and Radical Indoctrination About Race and History, Hans Bader, Minding the Campus, April 26, 2021 [“During the past four decades, liberal arts education was cancelled, and is now deceased.”]

White people should stand up to antiracist ideologues (35min video), John McWhorter interviewed by Freddie Sayers, Unherd.com, April 26, 2021

No systemic racism in US law enforcement: Leo Terrell (8min video), FOX News, April 27, 2021

Why The Senate’s Anti-Asian Hate Crime Bill Is Political Theater, Helen Raleigh, The Federalist, April 27, 2021

Critical race theory is about to face its day(s) in court, John Murawski, The Center Square, April 27, 2021

GOP lawmakers warn against ‘dangerous’ Biden critical race theory effort, Yaron Steinbuch, New York Post, April 28, 2021

White Privilege is a Divisive Idea, Funke Abimola interviewed by Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster, Triggernometry, April 28, 2021

What Is Systemic Racism?: John McWhorter, Lara Bazelon, Glenn Loury, Kmele Foster, Chloé Valdary and Kenny Xu weigh in, Common Sense with Bari Weiss, Substack.com, April 28, 2021

Episode 100: [Interview of] Wenyuan Wu (53min audio), Obaid Omer, Dangerous Speech, April 28, 2021

How to Keep CRT and Action Civics Out of K-12, Stanley Kurtz, National Review, April 29, 2021

What Schools Have Been Hiding About Anti-Racism Lessons, Paul Rossi interviewed by Dave Rubin, The Rubin Report, April 29, 2021

Idaho Passes Law Banning Critical Race Theory ‘Indoctrination’ at Public Schools, Carolline Downey, National Review, April 29, 2021

Groups Ask California Appropriations Committee Not to Waste Millions on Dangerous Ethnic Studies Requirement, Jewish Press News Desk, April 29, 2021

New Hampshire Rally Urges Schools to Stop CRT Indoctrination, Learner Liu, The Epoch Times, April 29, 2021

Under ‘Critical Race Theory,’ Racist Medicine, Janice Fiamengo, The Pipeline, April 29, 2021

Critical Race Theory In Education, Christopher Rufo, Free From Fear, April 30, 2021

The Monster Is in the Classroom: Schools indoctrinate children as young as eight in race and gender essentialism, Erika Sanzi, City Journal, April 30, 2021

To Defeat White Supremacism, Fight Critical Race Theory, Bruce Abramson, The Epoch Times, April 30, 2021

The Trouble with Faculty Hiring Booms in a Politicized Time, Neetu Arnold, Martin Center for Academic Renewal, April 30, 2021

GMU President Cites ‘Diversity’ to Justify Illegal Goal of Mostly Non-White Staff, Hans Bader, Minding the Campus, April 30, 2021

Race Demagogues Are Poisoning Our Politics,  Andrew McCarthy, National Review, May 1, 2021

America First Legal Pursuing Lawsuit Against Critical Race Theory: Stephen Miller, Allen Zhong, The Epoch Times, May 1, 2021

Critical Race Theory Is What’s Still Wrong With California’s Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum, Paul Kujawsky, Jewish Journal, May 1, 2021

School of Journalism—or Ministry of Propaganda?, Jay Schalin, Martin Center for Academic Renewal, May 3, 2021

Revolt of the Retired Generals, Nathan Pinkoski, First Things, May 3, 2021

UC Berkeley 2021 Conference on ‘Male Supremacism and Right-Wing Studies’, Katy Grimes, California Globe, May 4, 2021

Wyoming superintendent says DOE should not prioritize critical race theory, Caroline Chapman, Buckrail.com, May 4, 2021

Arkansas Governor Allows Bill That Bans Agencies From Training Employees [in] Critical Race Theory, Janita Kan, The Epoch Times, May 4, 2021

The Curious Case of the Asian American Victim, Richard Bernstein, RealClearPolitics, May 4, 2021

Wyoming state superintendent says U.S. Education Department’s critical race theory proposal marks ‘an alarming move toward federal overreach’, Derek Draplin, Wyoming Tribune Eagle, May 5, 2021

Purging Whiteness to Purge Capitalism, Mike Gonzalez & Jonathan Butcher, The Heritage Foundation, May 5, 2021

The Origins of the Cruel Ritual of Diversity Training, Alexander Riley, Martin Center for Academic Renewal, May 5, 2021

Ban Critical Race Theory now: States must assert the power to enforce the principles of the Civil Rights Act, Max Eden, American Enterprise Institute, May 5, 2021

Should Identity Politics Dictate Vaccine Research?: Even amid a pandemic, federal science agencies continue to fund anti-scientific diversity initiatives, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, May 5, 2021

Diversity Over Discovery: Biden’s war on merit puts America’s scientific edge at risk, Heather Mac Donald, City Journal, May 6, 2021

‘Out And Out Racist’: Dairy Farmer With Two Prosthetic Legs Sues Biden Administration For Basing Loan Forgiveness On Race, Hank Berrien, The Daily Wire, May 6, 2021

South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem signs ‘1776 pledge’ to ban ‘anti-American indoctrination’ in schools as Texas AG Ken Paxton says parents should oppose critical race theory to ‘save our kids’, Keith Grifffith, Daily Mail, May 7, 2071

Critical Race Theory in America’s Classrooms, Clare Lopez, FrontPage.mag, May 7, 2021

When teachers become activists: School districts owe parents total transparency on what they’re teaching, Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder, New York Daily News, May 7, 2021

Oklahoma Governor Signs Bill Banning Critical Race Theory in Public Schools, Ivan Pentchoukov, The Epoch Times, May 8, 2021

Biden’s new left of racial radicals, Michael Godwin, New York Post, May 8, 2021

How Critical Race Theory Works, Cameron Hilditch, National Review, May 8, 2021

Misplaced Contrition: The Psychological Origin of White Guilt, Vasko Kohlmayer, American Thinker, May 9, 2021

A college so crippled by going woke that all 3 candidates to be its new president withdrew their applications, Thomas Lifson, American Thinker, May 9, 2021

Critical Race Theory and the ‘Hyper-White’ Jew, Pamela Paresky, Sapir Journal, Spring 2021