After the crowd’s applause for his opponent died down, Dinesh D’Souza said he felt like a mosquito in a nudist colony. Facing popular affirmative action advocate Tim Wise in a heated debate on the ...

As some readers might know, I have a weekly column titled “The Death of Education” in which I recently published an article defending the Supreme Court’s decision to outlaw affirmative action in ...

Introduction : To look like America / Nicolaus Mills -- A negative vote on affirmative action / Shelby Steele -- Persuasion and distrust : the affirmative action debate / Randall Kennedy -- Feminism ...

Gilbert said that at the end of the day, the debate over affirmative action isn’t really about race at all. “I think race, gender, national origin, are scapegoats in this whole debate because even if ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently reviewing yet another affirmative action case from Michigan. This time the Court is considering the constitutionality of a 2006 state referendum that bans the use ...

Clegg's organization originally started the study in support of a ballot proposition being pushed by millionaire California entrepreneur Ward Connerly to outlaw affirmative-action programs not only in ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook The issue of affirmative action is returning to campus this semester with a five-part lecture ...

Between bombshell op-eds and a federal court case on college admissions, race-based affirmative action is back in the pundits' spotlight. Earlier this week, Peter Beinart joined Ross Douthat in ...

Prominent universities across America are now adopting a new admissions process that is remarkably similar to the Chinese Communist Party’s Social Credit System. After the Supreme Court ruled that ...

Harvey C. Mansfield ’53 is the Kenan Research Professor of Government at Harvard. I hear the outrage: What! These conservatives spend years in combat against affirmative action, accusing it of ills ...

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