A Capital Riot

To capitalize Black or not? That is the question. The Platonic angle.

I hear that capitalizing ‘black’ is becoming a thing. John McWhorter wrote about the subject recently. He gave a detailed but ambivalent view. I’m on the side of the adjective, against the proper noun.

Interestingly enough, these days I am working through Karl Popper’s extensive analysis and criticism of Plato’s Republic and several other of his works, …