Judicial Blame Avoidance, Part 2
Yesterday’s post interpreted Mass v. EPA as a Supreme Court exercise in institutional blame avoidance. Today, as threatened, a second, more incendiary example: affirmative action in higher education....
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Tim Groseclose has confirmed that he is one of America’s leading conservative commentators with the publication of Cheating: An Insider’s Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA. It may seem...
View ArticleRace Discrimination in College Admissions Should Be Forbidden, Once and for All
Since Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the U.S. Supreme Court has viewed itself as the enlightened molder of social consensus, leading the recalcitrant political branches to reach progressive...
View ArticleInjustice by the Numbers
Tim Groseclose has confirmed that he is one of America’s leading conservative commentators with the publication of Cheating: An Insider’s Report on the Use of Race in Admissions at UCLA. It may seem...
View ArticleRace Discrimination in College Admissions Should Be Forbidden, Once and for All
Since Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the U.S. Supreme Court has viewed itself as the enlightened molder of social consensus, leading the recalcitrant political branches to reach progressive...
View ArticleHarvard’s Student Body: Hitting the Targets, Spinning the Story
Commencement at Harvard University, 2014 (image: f11photo / shutterstock.com)Harvard officials insist that the university does not engage in racial balancing, but their own admissions statistics prove...
View ArticleHow the Diversity Mission Has Limited Free Expression on Campus
Image: Jacob Lund/Shutterstock.comIf the pursuit of truth, is in fact an exercise in exploitation, constraints on free expression become necessary to protect diversity.
View ArticleRedlining in Reverse
A student practices the SAT at a Kaplan Test Prep center in New York City, NY (Kaplan Test Prep / Shutterstock.com0.)“Adversity scores” are the latest gimmick to justify racial preferences in college...
View ArticleJudicial Blame Avoidance, Part 2
Yesterday’s post interpreted Mass v. EPA as a Supreme Court exercise in institutional blame avoidance. Today, as threatened, a second, more incendiary example: affirmative action in higher education....
View ArticleInjustice by the Numbers
University of California at Los Angeles Tim Groseclose has confirmed that he is one of America’s leading conservative commentators with the publication of Cheating: An Insider’s Report on the Use of...
View ArticleRace Discrimination in College Admissions Should Be Forbidden, Once and for All
Since Brown v. Board of Education (1954), the U.S. Supreme Court has viewed itself as the enlightened molder of social consensus, leading the recalcitrant political branches to reach progressive...
View ArticleHarvard’s Student Body: Hitting the Targets, Spinning the Story
The Trump administration’s Department of Justice has now filed a Statement of Interest in a pending lawsuit alleging that Harvard has discriminated against Asian Americans in admissions. Like almost...
View ArticleHow the Diversity Mission Has Limited Free Expression on Campus
How do we explain the assault on freedom of thought and expression that pervades our college and university campuses? How do we explain that significant numbers of students are supportive of speech...
View ArticleRedlining in Reverse
Higher education has been infiltrated—and hijacked—by race-obsessed progressives who, in the name of “diversity” and “inclusion,” seek to propagate an ideology of identity politics in order to foster...
View Article“Solely on the Basis of Race”
Would reparations to black Americans, that is, public law and policy based exclusively on racial class, be a repudiation of Brown v. Board of Education which unanimously overturned public school laws...
View ArticleThe Ivy League’s Race Problem
Along with its academic leadership of American higher education, the Ivy League now seems destined to be the source of the definitive, and therefore practically permanent, resolution of the issue of...
View ArticlePrecedent Does Not Protect Preferences
This fall, the Supreme Court will hear claims that two colleges are engaging in racial discrimination in their admissions programs in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act. In Students for...
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