“Affirmative action,” medical school ed.
This morning the Wall Street Journal editorial “Dividing doctors by race” takes up the subject of “affirmative action” — i.e., racial discrimination — in medical school admissions. The numbers reveal...
View ArticleHarvard Negotiates
Harvard University has been negotiating with the Trump administration over various issues, including foreign students. How those negotiations are going varies depending on who is being quoted. As part...
View ArticleForget It, Harvard
Three hours ago, Secretary of Education Linda McMahon told Harvard to forget about applying for future grant money from the federal government: it won’t be forthcoming. This is an obvious sequel to...
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Racism At Harvard
In thinking about the current battle between the Trump administration and Harvard University, fought over anti-Semitism and DEI, I recalled an earlier controversy in which Harvard–specifically, its law...
View ArticleHarvard, Meet Bob Jones
When I first saw President Trump’s suggestion that Harvard might lose its tax-exempt status, in addition to federal funding, I considered it mere Trumpian bombast. But Randy Barnett’s comment puts it...
View ArticleThe Carr letter
John Hinderaker wanted to embed the letter of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to Disney CEO Robert Iger in “Race discrimination is illegal: Someone tell Disney!” In the letter Carr expresses concern about...
View ArticleRace Discrimination Is Illegal: Someone Tell Disney!
Actually, someone just did. On Thursday, FCC Chairman Brendan Carr wrote to Robert Iger, the Disney Company’s CEO, expressing concerns about the legality of Disney’s DEI programs. Carr’s letter is...
View ArticlePerkins Coie Reaps the Whirlwind
Top Democratic Party lawyer Marc Elias and his then-law firm, Perkins Coie, played a disgraceful part in the Russia collusion hoax. I am not sure why no one in the Hillary Clinton campaign, nor anyone...
View ArticlePeriod of adjustment
Big law is another institution that has become an enemy of just about everything in which conservatives believe. The organized bar itself seems to operate as an arm of the left and the administrative...
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Art of the Non-Denial Comes to DEI-World
The Wall Street Journal Monday carried a blockbuster op-ed from John Sailer of the Manhattan Institute and Louis Galarowicz of the National Association of Scholars on rampant (and illegal) race-based...
View ArticleKamala’s Asterisk*
It took less than 24 hours for someone in the Harris campaign to wake up and recognize that, as John noted here yesterday, Harris proposal for federal aid of various kinds to black men was blatantly...
View ArticleColumbus Day, Government Waste and the Worst Pander Ever
Earlier today, Kamala Harris tweeted this: Black men deserve a president who cares about making their lives better. pic.twitter.com/cUCdsvvYZ6 — Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 15, 2024 This...
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Elite Universities: Liars or Cheats?
After Brown vs Board of Education was decided in 1954, the Democrat-run segregationist South engaged in “massive resistance,” requiring years of follow-up court cases and Department of Justice action...
View ArticleEt Tu, Jack Daniel’s
The company that owns Jack Daniel’s has abandoned its DEI program under threat of a boycott: Spirits giant Brown-Forman Corp. – with a market capitalization of $21.37 billion – is the latest company to...
View ArticleDEI Can Get You Killed
Insiders at UCLA’s medical school apparently have shared information with the Free Beacon that shows the destructive impact of racism–DEI–on medical schools. The story by Aaron Sibarium begins with an...
View ArticleDEI Destroys CHIPS
DEI (racial and other quotas) is intrinsically evil. At The Hill, Matt Cole and Chris Nicholson reveal a shocking, practical downside to DEI hysteria: “DEI killed the CHIPS Act.” The issue is critical...
View ArticleLegislatures Are Coming For DEI
It is slowly dawning on liberals across America that DEI is, in most contexts, illegal. The whole point of DEI is to discriminate against disfavored groups, and in favor of preferred groups. Liberals...
View ArticleGail Heriot wants you
Speaking of identity politics, as I do in the adjacent post on Claudine Gay, we should note that the left never gives up. That is what occurs to me and it is the place where William McGurn begins his...
View ArticleSowell Strikes Back
Thomas Sowell, recently profiled here by Scott Johnson, was born in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1930 and raised in Harlem. Sowell earned a bachelor’s degree from Harvard, a master’s from Columbia, and...
View ArticleAnother Pretendian
It pays to be a minority, especially a Native American. That is the only possible explanation why so many people, especially academics, adopt fake Indian identities. There is even a word for it:...
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