The Ta-Nehisi Coates essay in the Atlantic arguing the case for racial reparations stirred quite a bit of discussion and here are three more reactions:
* John McWhorter, “The Case Against Racial Reparations” [The Daily Beast]
* Jonathan Blanks, “Why Aren’t There More Black Libertarians?” [Libertarianism.org]
* Richard Epstein on Coates’ “acute tunnel vision” and misreadings of individual rights [Hoover “Defining Ideas”]
Plus: not a reaction but an older piece, “How Far Back Should We Go? Why Restitution Should Be Small” [Tyler Cowen, 2002, PDF]
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[…] If there are insuperable practical objections to the idea of reparations, how about if we find that out first before we’re asked to nod to the idea in principle? [David Frum responding to Ta-Nehisi Coates; earlier] […]