"In Kendi's Framework, the Only Possible Answer Is: Wait and See"

"'Once they clearly benefit,' Kendi writes, 'most Americans will support and become the defenders of the antiracist policies they once feared.' This is an inspiring prediction, although Kendi's own scholarship provides less reason for optimism. But, if he is right, becoming an antiracist might entail a realization that our national conversation about race is largely beside the point."

Kelefa Sanneh in a 2019 New Yorker article reviews Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist and Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism.

In a 2018 Tablet article, Wesley Yang looks back to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s 1993 essay "War of Words: Critical Race Theory and the First Amendment."

And at City Journal, Peter Winkler interviews Glenn C. Loury, while Coleman Hughes also reviews How to Be an Antiracist.