William Jacobson reads Ta-Nehisi Coates’ 15,000 word salad in The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations” so you don’t have to. It’s looooong, which gives it a perceived weight which just is not there. In fact, there’s not much new there, except for historical anecdotes shedding detail but not light on what we already knew to be the history of slavery, segregation and discrimination […] And that’s ultimately the problem with