The Eye Color Experiment: Our Unfinished Journey to Empathy

The Eye Color Experiment: Our Unfinished Journey to Empathy

There’s a line near the end of Colin Benjamin’s recent essay—BLUE AYES/BROWN NAYES—that I keep circling back to. It comes after he’s laid bare the way modern identity politics mimic Jane Elliott’s infamous 1968 classroom experiment, where third-graders turned on each...