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.

A Spite That Knows No Bounds
Gratingly awful global scold Greta Thunberg’s latest stunt is to turn on her own motherland. Sweden has been very good to her, but the former social-democratic paradise’s mugging by the realities of uncontrolled immigration do not sit well with the keffiyeh-clad rabblerouser. “For years, Sweden took more asylum seekers per capita than any other country in Europe,” writes Fredrik Karrholm in The Spectator. “Now asylum numbers have fallen to their lowest level since 1985.”


