Sixty years after sociologist WEB Du Bois’ death, Brendan O’Neill reflects in Spiked on Du Bois’ writing about the emancipation of slaves. Du Bois identified the “veil of color” as the greatest problem, one he believed could be surmounted – but which O’Neill argues activists today are seeking to make permanent by focusing on the cult of group identity and dissolving individual agency.

Bad Mom? Bad Wife?
The Massachusetts trial of Lindsay Clancy for killing her three young children (recently declared a mistrial) became a litmus test for couples – with some publicly breaking off engagements due to disagreements over her culpability. Writing in The American Mind, Evie Solheim ponders the malign influence of social media on the marriage decision for younger generations. “When men and women treat existence as a zero-sum game, everyone loses,” she writes, pleading for greater understanding between the sexes. For more on marriage, see this C2C article.


