On Racial Bias in Police Shootings

[Note: This essay was significantly revised and updated on July 16, 2020] In contemporary political discourse, there's an awful lot written about black people being unfairly killed by police. Such writings are normally in response to a particular incident of this supposedly occurring. Of course, individual stories are merely anecdotes and in a nation with …

On Redlining and Racial Bias in Lending

Racial differences in the ability to acquire a loan are sometimes pointed to as evidence of white privilege or anti-black bias. These differences are said to lead to racial disparities in home ownership rates which in turn have a variety of long-term economic and social consequences. Data from Pew shows that black people are indeed …