Common Sense, Common Census: Should America Follow France and Abolish Race Questions on the Census?

“The truth is that there are no races: there is nothing in the world that can do all we ask race to do for us.” Anthony Appiah, In My Father’s House “We feel that if all the possible scientific questions be answered, the problems of life have still not been touched at all.” Luwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus I We, the People. The opening words of the American Constitution intimate a promise of democracy, a radical idea at odds with the structural features of the document. Bu...