Race, Russia, and Rights
What is not up for discussion? The answer to this question defines a political order, and the repressiveness of such an order will depend on where this boundary is set between the discussable and the undiscussable. In this issue of Telos we consider three areas—race, Russian politics, and human rights—in which discussability has become the main issue, leading to implacable conflict.
Introduction
David Pan
Race
Hucksters of the “Postcolonial Business” in Search of Academic Respectability: Reflections on Contemporary Pseudo Anti-Racism in France
Pierre-André Taguieff
Behind the Globalized “New Anti-Racism”: A Trivialized Anti-White Racism
Pierre-André Taguieff
The Development of Black Lives Matter: An Interview with Kenneth D. Johnson
The Calculus of “Flood Proportions”: Reading Martin Luther King, Jr., When It Is Too Late
Sara-Maria Sorentino
Russia
Criticism of Western Liberal Democracy by Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’
Marcin Skladanowski
The Ethnosociological and Existential Dimensions of Alexander Dugin’s Populism
Michael Millerman
Russia’s Hybrid Warfare Strategy and How to Combat It
Kiran Sridhar
Rights
LGBTQ+ Rights after the Report on Unalienable Rights
Robert Deam Tobin
The Dangerous Political Theology of American Exceptionalism: Human Rights, Religion, and the Pitfalls of Contemporary Conservatism
Christian J. Emden
Reasons, Rights, and (Mis)readings: A Response to Emden
Christopher Tollefsen
In Defense of Human Rights: Reply to Emden
Russell A. Berman
Reviews
In Search of the Political
Mark S. Weiner
