In this long-awaited updated edition of Race & Liberty in America, editor Jonathan Bean presents the timeless and urgent insights classical liberalism has to offer our troubled and polarized time. In 2009, when Race & Liberty in America was originally published, there was a spirit of optimism surrounding race relations. Fifteen years later, and that spirit is fraught with tensions, many regrettably familiar and some new.
Which raises the question: what happened? And more importantly: how can we set things right?
With new contributions from Thomas Sowell, Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatteron Williams, Kenny Xu, David Bernstein, and Ilya Somin — as well as a plethora of primary source evidence from recent landmark US Supreme Court decisions — Bean champions the values of colorblindness, freedom, and equal constitutional protection for all individuals, regardless of race.
It's a message that couldn't be more timely.
