Let’s take apart this claim by Christopher Lasch from 1977 that hasn’t aged well: “Such changes have made both racist ideology and the ideology of martial conquest, appropriate to an earlier age of empire-building, increasingly anachronistic.”

As a social scientist, I find it instructive to look at the mistaken assessments written by thoughtful people in past eras. I thought of this after reading this passage from 1977 written by sociologist Christopher Lasch: The functional significance of … Continue reading → …