Charles Kenny

Two Reviews of Books on Progress

A review of Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now for The Democracy Journal: Its Not as Bad as All That.

And a  review of Gregg Easterbrook's It’s Better Than It Looks for The Washington Monthly: Dear Democrats, Don’t Despair.

 

How Republicans embraced identity politics

The party of white people can't accuse Democrats of being all about identity politics.  For the Economist.

The gender equality toolbox: The areas of society that still need work, and how to do it

A piece on what Canada could do to further global gender equality for OpenCanada.org.

 

Poverty in America: welfare programmes are not the problem

Welfare works.  Me in The Economist.

Black Americans are over-represented in media portrayals of poverty

...and that makes welfare unpopular.  Me in The Economist.