Steve Phillips: Are White Men Smarter Than Everybody Else?

Steve Phillips, bestselling author of Brown Is the New White, returns to Commonwealth Club World Affairs to present his provocative new argument for “draining the swamp of white male privilege.” He comes here at a time when equal rights are under intense attack on many fronts. Phillips, host of the “Democracy in Color with Steve Phillips” podcast, is on a mission to exhort people to go on the offensive in the fight for racial justice in this country—flipping the focus from the underrepresentation of people of color to the overrepresentation of white men. It’s a topic he explores in his latest book, Are White Men Smarter Than Everybody Else? He labels the unequal system as Straight White American Male Preference (or S.W.A.M.P.) and says it came roaring out of the shadows once again. Far from being a country where white men have suffered under so-called reverse racism, Phillips says America is a place where white men—a minority of the total—have enjoyed unfair legal advantages, racial quotas, grade inflation, and jumping the line for public benefits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This episode is 62:26 long.

This episode was published on May 5, 2026.

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