"The Achilles’ heel of the left has been its dependence on menace for power. Think of all the things it can ask for in…"

"[T]he left, whose existence is threatened by the diminishment of racial oppression. The left’s unspoken terror is tha…"

"[T]he left gets power from fighting white evil, not black despair. Today’s left lacks worthy menaces to fight. It is …"

"[T]he left is still stalked by obsolescence. There is simply not enough menace to service its demands for power. The …"

"[W]hy are there no Martin Luther Kings around today? I think one reason is that there are no black leaders willing to…"

"[T]hough fear always seeks a thousand justifications, none is ever good enough, and the problems we run from only rem…"

"Certainly since Vietnam, America has increasingly practiced a policy of minimalism and restraint in war. And now this…"

"The great ingenuity of interventions like affirmative action has not been that they give Americans a way to identify …"

"There is a price to be paid even for fellow-traveling with a racial identity as politicized and demanding as today's …"

"At every turn "world opinion," like a schoolmarm, takes offense and condemns Israel for yet another infraction of the…"