A review of Coleman Hughes’ thoughtful The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America, Thesis (Penguin Random House), 2024. The topic of race is ‘boring’ to Coleman Hughes. To state such a thing publicly, in the United States, is enough to land one in both social and professional hot water. Yet New York-born Hughes – half black, half Puerto Rican – has carved himself out as a leading contrarian figure on the issue of race in the United States. I label Hughes ‘contrarian’ here because the space occupied on his short path, at only 28 years old, is […]

An optimistic case for PNG’s democracy, despite so much pessimism.