On Wednesday, foreign policy analyst Max Boot, whose work I generally admire, penned a truly awful piece for Foreign Policy magazine. The piece had nothing to do with foreign policy, which was part of the problem — Boot’s analysis of domestic policy simply isn’t up to the same standard as his books, virtually all of which are worth a read. More than that, the piece was an evidence-free piece of fluff guaranteed to make members of the political Left feel warm and fuzzy without providing any support to Boot’s main contention: that America is still dominated by white privilege.
Boot begins by disowning his past as a typical conservative making light of identity politics constructs like “white male privilege”:
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