I'd heard rumors about this, and now the NYT has an account. It's description of Reed's views is not particularly nuanced (it's understandably hard for the official mouthpiece of the prudent wing of the ruling class to present Marxist views, although Professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor from Princeton [quoted in the article] doesn't have that excuse), but it has some good quotes from Professor Reed:
None of this surprised Professor Reed, who sardonically described it as a “tempest in a demitasse.” Some on the left, he said, have a “militant objection to thinking analytically”....
He finds a certain humor in being attacked over race.
“I’ve never led with my biography, as that’s become an authenticity-claiming gesture,” he said. “But when my opponents say that I don’t accept that racism is real, I think to myself, ‘OK, we’ve arrived at a strange place.’”
Professor Reed and his compatriots believe the left too often ensnares itself in battles over racial symbols, from statues to language, rather than keeping its eye on fundamental economic change.
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