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<title><![CDATA[Wilfred Reilly - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/39596.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Wilfred Reilly]]></description><category domain="39596">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA['Party That's Not Crazy First Could Be in Power for 30 Years']]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2026/09/25/democrats-dsa-candidates-problem-midterms/91810550007/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From New York to Michigan, DSA candidates keep winning Democratic primaries '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' and the party can't seem to push back as the midterms approach.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Reality of Slavery in America vs. Everywhere Else]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/12/10/wilfred_reilly_the_reality_of_slavery_in_america_vs_everywhere_else.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[John Stossel reports on the historical context of slavery in the U.S. with Wilfred Reilly, a politicial science professor and author of "Lies My Liberal Teach Told Me."]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How George Floyd Dragged America to the Right]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/25/how-george-floyd-dragged-america-to-the-right/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 25 May 2025 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Five years on, the rioting and lawlessness inspired by his death have utterly discredited the BLM movement.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Politics of Tribal Nonsense]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/politics-tribal-nonsense-wilfred-reilly</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 16 Nov 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A tidal wave of blatant falsehoods presented as terrifying truth intends to overwhelm fact-based analysis in service of a new kind of regressive, conspiracy-mongering politics]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There's Nothing Racist About Ending Affirmative Action]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/07/05/theres-nothing-racist-about-ending-affirmative-action/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jul 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The US Supreme Court has put an end to a genuine form of 'systemic racism'.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Racial Ideology Has Melted Leftist Minds]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/05/18/racial-identity-politics-has-melted-liberals-minds/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[There has been a good deal of talk in the US over the past few weeks about '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'Hispanic white supremacy'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'. The idea itself sounds darkly funny, but its widespread prominence says something serious about the mainstream media'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s embrace of race essentialism.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Political Bias Explains Everything]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/how-political-bias-explains-everything</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Experts make judgments based on political attitudes that impact their reliability]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Requiem for Black Lives Matter: A Quick, Negative Summary]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/09/20/a-requiem-for-black-lives-matter/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[BLM was meant to help black people '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';' it's done the opposite.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Disputed Questions: Is America Good?]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpolitics.com/disputed_questions/is-america-good.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 16 Aug 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The modern United States of America is one of the richest, happiest, and most productive societies ever to exist. The U.S. is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, with a per capita gross national income of $55,351 '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('“').';' ahead of power players like Germany, Bahrain, Canada, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[University of Pennsylvania: Don't Fire Amy Wax]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2022/05/06/university_of_pennsylvania_dont_fire_amy_wax_debate_her_views_110732.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Controversial University of Pennsylvania law professor Amy Wax has jumped into hot water again.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Kendi and the Democrats' New Definition of Racism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.commentary.org/articles/wilfred-reilly/racism-ibram-x-kendi/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Words have to mean things. That isn'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t a glib, throwaway line. Many of the most vicious battles in modern American public life are, in their essence, purely semantic fights'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'often focused on postmodern attempts to redefine previously consistent terms.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Idiocy of 'Shared Oppression']]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/idiocy-shared-oppression</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2022 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Has anyone else noticed that the rainbow flag of sexual diversity keeps expanding to include the full possible spectrum of visible colors? I recently saw that something called the Intersex Inclusion Campaign introduced a new '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'intersex inclusive pride progress flag,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' which is...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How Jussie Smollett's Hoax Unravelled]]></title>
							<link>https://unherd.com/2021/12/how-jussie-smolletts-hoax-unravelled/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 11 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Jussie Smollett was convicted yesterday evening of staging a racist attack on himself in January 2019. Coming just weeks after Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted in Kenosha and the killers of Ahmaud Arbery were convicted in Georgia, the Smollett case reveals an uncomfortable truth about race...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Parents Aren't Bigots for Rejecting Critical Race Theory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.city-journal.org/what-is-critical-race-theory-really?wallit_nosession=1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[And why that's often the wrong question]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[An Open Letter to School Boards]]></title>
							<link>https://1776unites.com/essays/our-open-letter-to-public-school-boards/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 17 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Thank you for the vital leadership role you play in ensuring schools empower all of our students to acquire the core American virtues and knowledge essential for citizenship in our racially diverse, multi-ethnic and pluralistic democracy. A peaceful and prosperous American future must be...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Assault on Empiricism]]></title>
							<link>https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/assault-empiricism-wilfred-reilly</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From crime to climate change, the hostility of 'movements' to data is making it impossible to address real-world problems]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Nikole Hannah-Jones and the Affirmative-Action Paradox]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/07/22/nikole-hannah-jones-and-the-affirmative-action-paradox/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In academia, being a person of colour confers almost unbelievable advantages.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Plain Truths Which Everyone Agrees--But Can't Be Mentioned]]></title>
							<link>https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1414300447679070211.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[An interesting phenomenon today is that there exists a whole genre of plain truths which everyone - across all races, etc - would agree to in a barbershop, on a basketball court, or on a golf course...but which almost cannot be mentioned in "polite" discourse.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Media Care More About the Narrative Than the Facts]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/06/16/the-american-media-care-more-about-the-narrative-than-the-facts/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[From the lab-leak theory to the Lafayette Square tear-gassing, anti-Trump bias blinded our news media.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Wokeism as Religion After George Floyd]]></title>
							<link>https://spectator.org/george-floyd-wokeism-religion/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2021 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A more aggressive and missionary version of the woke religion took root following the unfortunate and symbolic death of George Floyd.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA['Systemic Racism' Is a Conspiracy Theory]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2021/02/10/systemic-racism-is-a-conspiracy-theory/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[We'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'ve been hearing a lot lately about conspiracy theories. Obviously, the former US president has provided a Trump Tower-sized target for his critics after telling his supporters that Democrats rigged an election he actually '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('˜').';'won by a landslide'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'. Congresswoman and Trump...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Did the BLM Protests Lead to the 2020 Spike in Homicides?]]></title>
							<link>https://quillette.com/2021/01/27/did-the-blm-protests-against-the-police-lead-to-the-2020-spike-in-homicides/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Serious crime, particularly murder, soared while everyone was supposed to be locked indoors. Between 2019'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'by no means a famously peaceful year'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'and 2020, homicides alone surged by 42 percent during the summer and 34 percent during the fall. Many politically acceptable...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why Woke History Is Not the Answer]]></title>
							<link>https://www.realclearpublicaffairs.com/articles/2020/10/27/why_woke_history_is_not_the_answer_581610.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The United States may be the first country in history to tell a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'noble lie'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' about its past that makes that past look worse, not better, than it actually was. For certain, the premodern history of the United States included a great deal of barbaric, uncivilized behavior: the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bubba Wallace and the Wave of Dubious Hate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/07/06/bubba-wallace-and-the-wave-of-dubious-hate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The NASCAR driver mistook a garage door pull rope for a noose.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[There Is No Empirical Evidence for These Lockdowns]]></title>
							<link>https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/22/there-is-no-empirical-evidence-for-these-lockdowns/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2020 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Comparing US states shows there is no relationship between lockdowns and lower Covid-19 deaths.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[1619 Project Robs Black Americans of Their Stake in 1776]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2020/03/04/nyts-1619-project-tries-to-rob-black-americans-of-their-stake-in-1776/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The New York Times' 1619 Project argues that the United States is inextricably rooted in the evil of slavery, brought to these shores in 1619. As a black scholar, I reject this narrative.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Hate-Crime Epidemic That Never Was]]></title>
							<link>https://quillette.com/2019/07/07/the-hate-crime-epidemic-that-never-was-a-seattle-case-study/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The Seattle Times recently reported that an epidemic of hate crimes is taking place in the Emerald City. According to the newspaper, more than 500 bias incidents were reported to Seattle police in 2018 alone, and this figure represents an increase of nearly 400 percent since 2012....]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Violent Racism Is Very Rare in the Modern USA]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2019/02/22/jussie-smollett-empire-attack-fired-cut-video-chicago-fox-column/2950146002/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Wilfred Reilly</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In writing a book about hate crime hoaxes, I found more than 400. Such frauds damage good race relations.]]></description>
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