Join the Heterodox Academy (HxA) Campus Community at Cornell University for a free screening of the documentary essay, White Guilt, by Eli Steele and Shelby Steele. The film will be followed by a panel discussion with Eli Steele, Jodi Shaw, Paul Rossi, and William Jacobson

When: Thursday, April 16, 2026 from 5:30-8:30 PM

Where: Cornell Law School, Myron Taylor Hall room 186

About the film

After the 1960s Civil Rights victories, white America stood accused and were desperate to regain moral authority and escape the stain of racism. That frantic need birthed white guilt, a moral collapse that replaced merit with victimhood, standards with excuses, and individual responsibility with grievance power.

The result: failing schools, dependency programs, racial division, riots, defund-the-police chaos—and now a global wave where Hamas’s October 7 atrocities are called “resistance,” campus antisemitism is tolerated, and anti-Western tribalism gains ground.

Featuring David Mamet, Batya Ungar-Sargon, Pastor Corey Brooks, Jodi Shaw, Paul Rossi and others who paid the price for refusing to kneel.

Eli Steele is an award-winning documentary filmmaker known for tackling provocative cultural and social issues. His latest project is the upcoming documentary White Guilt with his father, Shelby Steele, an adaptation and update of Shelby's influential 2006 book exploring the corrosive effects of white guilt on American society. A graduate of Claremont McKenna College and Pepperdine University's School of Public Policy, his notable works include Killing America (exploring anti-Semitism and cultural divisions),What Killed Michael Brown? (2020), which reached #1 on Amazon's documentary charts upon release, How Jack Became Black (2018) (examining identity politics and multiracial families), What’s Bugging Seth (2005), a narrative feature that won top honors at ten film festivals, and Katrina (2007), an MTV Network pilot that earned him the Breakthrough Filmmakers Award. He has also produced over twenty short documentaries for FOX in a two-year span, along with series like Rooftop Revelations.

Shelby Steele From civil rights warrior and black militant to fearless dissident, Shelby Steele unmasks white guilt as the toxin that poisoned America -- destroying merit, igniting riots, demolishing standards, and now arming global chaos from campus bloodlust to civilizational suicide. When good and evil have been utterly reversed, what happens to those who refuse to surrender?