The Falls

Weinberger’s prescient essay—”the most revealing and meticulous history of racism that I’ve read” (Wyatt Mason, Harper’s)—available at last in a standalone edition with a new afterword

Spanning millennia, The Falls is an astonishing excavation of racism, slavery, and violence. With incredible precision, this miraculous work begins with the Canaanites and takes a magnifying glass to every culture, religion, and people that has existed since. Weinberger leaves no stone unturned as he shows tha...