Ralph Leonard

Ralph Leonard is a British-Nigerian writer on international politics, religion, culture and humanism.

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Maori protests expose Left and Right’s ethnonationalist delusions A proposed law in New Zealand has kickstarted a debate around 'indigeneity'

20 Nov 2024

Old-school Leftism is going extinct in the Democratic Party Progressive liberals have disregarded the politics of Bernie Sanders

09 Nov 2024

Right-wing anti-Zionism is on the rise in America Chris Brunet has been accused of antisemitism for challenging the Gaza war

22 Oct 2024

Kamala Harris is patronising black men Promises to legalise marijuana and increase access to crypto will backfire

16 Oct 2024

Why is Jacob Elordi’s casting in Wuthering Heights so controversial? Progressive critics are guilty of ‘ancestor worship’

29 Sep 2024

The hypocrisy of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Palestine intervention The writer's new 'obsession' ignores crucial historical context

24 Sep 2024

Christopher Columbus isn’t to blame for the Caribbean’s problems Modern reparations movements undermine colonial subjects' agency

25 Aug 2024

Race riots are the logical endpoint of identity politics Policies of multiculturalism have created a volatile racial hierarchy

05 Aug 2024

Michel Foucault still confuses the Right, 40 years later His version of postmodernism did not breed current identity politics

25 Jun 2024

Did racial politics delay hip hop’s MeToo reckoning? After Diddy, more prominent artists are being accused of sexual crimes

09 Jun 2024

Megalopolis is a fightback against artistic safetyism Francis Ford Coppola's new film may flop, but we need more like it

19 May 2024

Drake and Kendrick Lamar are weaponising feminism Rap is becoming more socially conscious, but only at surface level

07 May 2024

Candace Owens turns Catholic: another political Christian Right-wingers are drawn to tradition and beauty as much as faith

24 Apr 2024

Will Joker: Folie à Deux be an incel film? The sequel may inspire the same cultural debate as its predecessor

11 Apr 2024

Candace Owens is no outlier on America’s radical Right Anti-Israel sentiment is gaining traction in unexpected places

23 Mar 2024

Is Shaun King’s Islam conversion a grift? The BLM activist underwent another evolution this week

12 Mar 2024

The West bears responsibility for Haiti chaos The country is now hurtling towards civil war

09 Mar 2024

Is George Galloway’s sectarianism a sign of things to come? His strategy of targeting ethnic groups could lay the template for future leaders

03 Mar 2024

‘Uncancellable’ — Kanye West album reaches number one Vultures 1 has topped the charts in over 100 countries on iTunes

13 Feb 2024

Labour’s equal pay promise is DEI in disguise The party has radical plans for a race equality act

05 Feb 2024

Ilhan Omar: part progressive, part ethno-nationalist The Congresswoman promised to defend the interests of Somalis in the US

29 Jan 2024

Where does repatriated African artwork really end up? Only wealthy private owners stand to benefit

27 Jan 2024

Poor Things reinvigorates the Prometheus myth A new film starring Emma Stone is a thrilling ode to human capability

17 Jan 2024

Black America is turning away from the Democrats Joe Biden has taken the historically loyal voter bloc's support for granted

21 Dec 2023

More than one in eight African Americans deny the Holocaust A new poll finds that anti-Israel feeling has developed into more extreme forms

10 Dec 2023

‘Being Irish’ has lost its meaning An older conception of romantic nationalism is slipping away

30 Nov 2023

Black Britons don’t need black history Efforts at redefining our national story are usually elite-driven

28 Oct 2023

Hamas apologists have misunderstood Frantz Fanon The philosopher's work has been too easily applied to Israel and Palestine

15 Oct 2023

Progressives ignore America’s crime wave at their peril The closure of nine Target stores in coastal cities reflects poorly on Democrats

28 Sep 2023

Ibram X. Kendi’s race hustle deserves to fail Accusations of fund mismanagement at the academic's centre are no surprise

22 Sep 2023

Black-majority states are not progressive The New York Times is promoting reactionary ideas about race

23 Aug 2023

Why did Ice Cube go on Tucker Carlson? The black nationalist rapper is an unusual kind of conservative

27 Jul 2023

McDonald’s made me a Marxist

27 Jul 2023

The dangerous rise of Black Hebrew Israelites Celebrities are repeating the group's anti-Semitic tropes

23 Nov 2022

The erasure of black Jews

10 Nov 2022

The anti-racist who shames the Dutch

27 Jan 2022

America’s African shame

01 Sep 2021

The demise of ‘political blackness’

22 Mar 2021

Undercover police in nightclubs won’t reassure anyone It reveals our culture's obsession of safetyism

17 Mar 2021

Why the West isn’t racist

28 Jan 2021

Lana Del Rey, Laschian conservative The singer echoes the late academic's distaste for the US's narcissistic culture

22 Jan 2021

Get ready for the post-pandemic party

07 Jan 2021

The first black superhero of the modern age

29 Dec 2020

Don’t demonise the ‘male gaze’

09 Dec 2020

There’s nothing wrong with Obama’s pick-up artistry Reading Marx to attract girls is cringey, not creepy

20 Nov 2020

Is dating discrimination?

07 Oct 2020

Why are we racialising Beethoven? As a person of colour, I don't feel 'excluded' when I listen to the 5th Symphony

16 Sep 2020

How to stop the 2020s becoming the new 1930s

01 Sep 2020

The abolitionist who believed in bloodshed

21 Aug 2020

Racial categories are reactionary

14 Aug 2020

How the Dutch invented our world

14 Jul 2020

Stop apologising for cultural appropriation

01 Jul 2020

Britain’s race pain is not the same as America’s

03 Jun 2020

What the Left gets wrong about knife crime

27 Aug 2019

Fighting hate speech with free speech

28 Dec 2018

What the anti-immigration Left gets wrong

06 Dec 2018

CLR James rejected the posturing of identity politics

11 Oct 2018