Opinion

Ibram X. Kendi’s Refusal to Debate Critics Was an Act of Surrender

TALK IT OUT

He declared his antiracist philosophy to be the unimpeachable truth, and mainstream institutions never challenged him. That’s not how you win an argument.

Anthony L. Fisher
Anthony L. Fisher 

Senior Opinion Editor

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