The Apartheid Nobody Wants to Talk About

The world learned to condemn legal inequality. Then it became strangely selective about where to look for it.

Part One

There was a time when the word apartheid had genuine moral gravity. It was not a slogan. It was not a cultish campus chant. It was not a rhetorical weapon to be swung at political opponents. It described something concrete, something measurable, and something profoundly evil: a legal system in which the state itself assigned different rights to …