THE ECONOMIST 經濟學人雜誌 2020/07/11第28期

How not to tackle American racism

Our cover this week argues that a set of illiberal ideas about how to tackle American racism will only hinder progress. Leaders like Frederick Douglass and Martin Luther King used vigorous protest and relentless argument to push society towards their vision of equality of opportunity and equality before the law. Most Americans still hew to that classical liberal ideal, as do many of those who marched with justified anger over the killing of George Floyd by a white policeman in Minneapolis. But a dangerous rival approach has emerged from American universities. It rejects the liberal notion of progress. It defines everyone by their race, and every action as racist or anti-racist. It is not yet dominant, but it is dynamic and it is spreading out of the academy into newsrooms and boardrooms. If it supplants liberal values, then intimidation will chill open debate and sow division to the disadvantage of all, black and white.

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《經濟學人》報導內容涵蓋全球，而非獨看亞洲地區。報導內容包括時事、商業、政治、經濟、科學、書籍及文藝。文章用字遣詞精簡，在大膽批判之餘，不失作為學者的風範，因此被譽為最值得一看的國際雜誌。

英國《經濟學人》雜誌的寫作風格十分有特色，注重於如何在最小的篇幅內告訴讀者最多的信息。《經濟學人》的文章也以妙語聞名，是學英文 、準備留學學子的一流讀物。