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It has been almost 20 years since Shelby Steele published the best-known of his five books on race, “White Guilt: How Blacks and Whites Together Destroyed the Promise of the Civil Rights Era.” A lot has happened since. In 2006 “we hadn’t had President Obama, Ferguson, Trump, George Floyd, DEI, Black Lives Matter, President Biden,” Mr. Steele says. “We also hadn’t had Oct. 7.” Mr. Steele, 79, is one of America’s foremost black conservative thinkers, recently retired as a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He is still hard at work, on a film made by his son, Eli Steele,...

When The Stiletto was watching Hannity & Colmes the other day, one of the segments concerned the hateful, hysterical blog comments by posters lamenting the failure of the Taliban suicide bomber who reportedly tried to assassinate Vice President Dick Cheney outside the Bagram air force base in Afghanistan.Citing New York Congressman Charles Rangel’s 2005 remark that the Iraq War “is just as bad as the 6 million Jews being killed” and Boston Globe columnist Ellen Goodman’s comparison of global warming denial to Holocaust denial, one of the guest pundits denounced the over-the-top propensity of the far left to equate people...

<p>It's not possible to spend an hour in urban India without ingesting life's unfairness. When families subsist in cardboard shelters a few yards from Italianate villas, a visitor must drop the dearly held American pretense that Being Created Equal amounts to equal opportunity and treatment for all. Luck and grueling effort are the main safety nets in places like India, and poor children aren't spared the legion of woes that their parents face daily.</p>