In Unherd, Joel Kotkin dissects the critical New Jersey and Virginia gubernatorial races in last week’s U.S. off-year elections. Kotkin theorizes that Republican contenders found their path to victory in the post-Trump era with a strong stand against radical racialism in schools, a defence of public safety and a focus on the economy.

Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.


