FOR white liberals it threatens to be the ultimate embarrassment. A controversial brain imaging study published this week claims to have identified telltale signals linked to closet racial prejudice. It is one of a small but growing number in recent years which appear to indicate that brain science has advanced to the point where it can read our minds and lay bare our innermost prejudices. Can it really?
A century ago, racism was academically respectable. It was quite the fashion for scientists to go around measuring the craniums of peoples of different races in search of evidence of white superiority.…
