Wesley Yang is the author of The Souls of Yellow Folk.
How campus Title IX courts’ guilty-until-proven-innocent subversion of due process is a harbinger of a dangerous wider shift in liberalism
Campus Week: How did an elite, repressive minority policing speech and culture through political correctness come to browbeat the American democratic majority?
Who gets in, and why?
How the Twitter mobs choose their targets
Two decades after his death, why the German-language writer and memoirist yearned for an era he never knew
Why the racial future of America hinges upon Asian Americans
The latest wave of Chinese immigrants prefers colorblind meritocracy over victimhood-based affirmative action, at the expense of blacks and Hispanics
How the micro-grievances of different immigrant classes reflect a broader problem in our conception of race in America
Meme Wars: questioning our postmodern definitions of ‘equality’
A return to the early-1990s origins of victimization in identity politics, then—and now—a distraction from the real challenges of structural and institutional racism in America
What Lorin Stein’s resignation from The Paris Review over sexual misconduct reveals about the true index of male power
The insular, circular, and viraltastic history of a racist idea
Cosmopolitan yet barbarous, Jew-filled and Jew-free, remote but central—a new history explores the Black Sea port city’s many contradictions
In a book on the Dreyfus Affair, writer-lawyer Louis Begley offers a 21st-century J’accuse
How Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller tapped into the soul of ’50s America—and made it sing
What the Wittgenstein family gained and lost
Decadence and anti-Semitism in Arthur Schnitzler’s Vienna
The twisted mind of Otto Weininger
