Doublethink of the day
Tirien Steinbach is an attorney who has served as associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at Stanford Law School. You may recall the role she played in the shoutdown of Fifth Circuit Judge...
View ArticleThe time has come today
The subject of what goes under the shibboleth of “affirmative action” is both close to my heart and one about which I have frequently written, usually drawing on Andrew Kull’s legal history The...
View ArticleSupreme Court Finally Strikes Down Race-Based Admissions
The Supreme Court’s long expected ruling on the Harvard and University of North Carolina race-based admissions practices was just released. A 6-3 vote, along predictable lines, backs up Chief Justice...
View ArticleJoey Mumbles does college admissions
Within an hour of the release of the Supreme Court decision in the “affirmative action” cases yesterday, President Biden stepped forth with his pitty-pat steps to mumble his disparagement of it. The...
View ArticleAndrew Kull: The affirmative action cases
After posting my own brief comments on the Supreme Court’s historic decision in the affirmative action cases on Thursday, I wrote Professor Andrew Kull. Professor Kull is Distinguished Senior Lecturer...
View ArticleCelebrating Justice Thomas
With his glorious concurrence in SFFA v. Harvard, today has become a day to salute Justice Clarence Thomas, or so it seems to me. Here is a man who has thought his own way through to a true...
View ArticleState AGs Say: Stop Discriminating! [Updated]
The Supreme Court’s anti-discrimination decisions, Harvard and UNC, have revitalized the movement to achieve equal justice for all Americans. Those cases had to do with college admissions and didn’t...
View ArticleThe War on Merit, Teacher Edition
The City of New York has agreed to pay $1.8 billion to would-be teachers who failed the state’s teacher qualification exam between 1994 and 2014: Roughly 5,200 black and Hispanic ex-Big Apple teachers...
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:...
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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleElite 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 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...
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 ArticleArt 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 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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