Race is Still Fake

Correcting the record on biology, identity, and words meaning things

A note before we begin: this essay supersedes my earlier piece “Race Is (Largely) Fake,” which a few of you may have read and a few of you may have argued with me about at considerable length. I don’t disavow that piece. Its core argument stands. But critics from both sides of the debate had useful things to say, and I made concessions in that OG versio…