Thomas Chatterton Williams, along with more than 150 prominent journalists, authors and writers, published a letter decrying what it called the "intolerant climate that has set in on all sides" of debate in Harper's Magazine on Tuesday, fueling a heated controversy over free speech, privilege and the role of social media in public discourse. Thomas Chatterton Williams defends letter as critics say it disregards marginalised views Alexandra Topping Sun 12 Jul 2020 11.02 EDT Last modified on Sun 12 Jul 2020 14.35 EDT The letter set off a heated controversy over free speech, privilege and the role of social media in public discourse. Thomas Chatterton Williams, along with more than 150 prominent journalists, authors and writers, published a letter in Harper's Magazine on Tuesday, decrying what it called the "intolerant climate that has set in on all sides" of debate. Thomas Chatterton Williams, along with more than 150 journalists, authors and writers, published a letter decrying the "intolerant climate that has set in …

When a plea for mutual understanding went viral, it also revealed the limits of America’s racial imagination. My relationship with Valentine – though enriched and inflected by French words and phrases – is only possible as a result of her facility for English. Williams claims to have undertaken—at the age of seven—a summer program of “syllogistic and spatial reasoning, vocabulary-building, Miller analogies, arithmetic, and reading comprehension,” all administered by Clarence in a house extravagantly packed with books. The extraordinary intellectual Thomas Chatterton Williams has decided to confront one of the most difficult mental prisons that Americans find themselves trapped in–the prison of racism and racial identity. THOMAS CHATTERTON WILLIAMS: Her ease with the language seems like fluency to me. Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a “black” father from the segregated South and a “white” mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person black. (These are the 15,000 of the original subtitle, and the subject of breathless litanies.) Thomas Chatterton Williams, the son of a “black” father from the segregated South and a “white” mother from the West, spent his whole life believing the dictum that a single drop of “black blood” makes a person black.

My French, on the other hand, is more rudimentary, unimaginative and uninspired, even though I’ve studied the language since grade school.