Comments on: Sorry we assigned a racist to review your book https://sorrywatch.com/sorry-we-assigned-a-racist-to-review-your-book/ Analyzing apologies in the news, media, history and literature. We condemn the bad and exalt the good. Fri, 14 Aug 2020 17:31:44 +0000 hourly 1 By: Weekend reads: A "culture of fear?"; blogs vs. academic papers; neurosurgery retractions on the rise - Retraction Watch at Retraction Watch https://sorrywatch.com/sorry-we-assigned-a-racist-to-review-your-book/#comment-207887 Sat, 22 Apr 2017 13:31:47 +0000 https://sorrywatch.com/?p=5048#comment-207887 […] American History Review apologizes for a review written by a professor seen by many as a white supremacist and commissions another review — but doesn’t retract the original. (Scott Jaschik, Inside Higher Ed) “An excellent apology would have skipped the feeble self-justifying and gone straight to the second graf, which starts, ‘Regrettably, we did not dig further,'” says SorryWatch on the request for retraction. […]

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