What I believe
Larry Bacow, the president of Harvard, blasted this email to members of the Harvard Community: The last several months have been disorienting for all of us. COVID-19 has profoundly disrupted the lives...
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Gaming Out the Left’s Race Strategy From Here
Before the George Floyd’s death a month ago perhaps the leading story in race relations was the growing momentum in California to roll back the voter-approved prohibition on racial preferences in...
View ArticleThe left’s agenda on race
Roger Clegg offers seven thoughts for 7/7. One of them is this: Some statues will come down, and some will stay, and the impact on black lives will be precisely zero. The Left has gotten people’s...
View ArticleDoJ to Yale: Stop discriminating
One gets the impression that in important respects the Trump administration is just beginning to fire on all cylinders. A brilliant and fully functioning Attorney General heading up the Department of...
View ArticleSummer of our discontent
City Journal has just posted the lead essay from its Summer issue online. By Heather Mac Donald, the essay is “Conformity to a lie.” Subhead: “Academia’s monolithic belief in systemic racism will...
View ArticleAsian-American “experts” back discrimination against Asian-Americans
Asian-Americans comprise the group most acutely victimized when colleges and universities dole out preferences in admission to African-Americans. The reason is obvious. Racial preferences minimize...
View ArticleResentment, Critical Race Theory, and the war on standards
In the mid-1960s, when colleges began admitting black students who didn’t meet the standards applied to white ones, some observers presciently warned that the students admitted based on race...
View ArticleParents sue Montgomery County schools over race discrimination
I’ve written before about how Montgomery County, Maryland, where I live, discriminates against Asian-Americans in education. The discrimination consists of limiting the number of Asian-Americans...
View ArticleAntiracism at Cornell
Legal Insurrection documents Cornell University’s swing to the left over the issue of race. Cornell University has joined a growing list of universities embracing “antiracist” activism, a euphemism for...
View ArticleAsian victims of Harvard’s discrimination get day in court
This week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit heard argument in the case against Harvard University brought by Students for Fair Admissions. The plaintiffs allege that Harvard’s use of...
View ArticlePoll: California voters don’t want racial preferences reinstated
In 1996, voters in California passed Proposition 209, which amended the state’s constitution to prohibit public institutions from discriminating on the basis of race, sex, or ethnicity. I wrote about...
View ArticleGinsburg’s alleged “blind spot”
On Wednesday, an army of Justice Ginsburg’s former law clerks, all dressed in black, honored their mentor by lining up as “honorary pallbearers” on the front steps of the Supreme Court when her casket...
View ArticlePlease help preserve California’s ban on discrimination by the state
Last week, I wrote about California’s Proposition 16. It’s an attempt to remove the ban on racial preferences from the state’s constitution. Here is the language, added by the voters in 1996, that Prop...
View ArticleTrump-Barr Justice Department sues Yale for discriminating in admissions
The Department of Justice has sued Yale University for race and national origin discrimination in undergraduate admissions. The DOJ alleges that Yale’s discrimination imposes undue and unlawful...
View ArticleRace discrimination at Yale
Last week, I reported that the Department of Justice has sued Yale University for discriminating against Whites and Asian-Americans in undergraduate admissions. Today, I want to look more specifically...
View ArticleClassroom learning for Blacks, online learning for Whites?
In August, the Illinois school district that encompasses Evanston announced its plans for a limited opening in September. Expecting that, given the pandemic, not enough teachers would return to...
View ArticleS.F. Bay area sports teams support racial discrimination
California’s constitution provides: The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin...
View ArticleDOJ draws non-liberal judge in suit against Yale
I wrote here about the Department of Justice’s suit against Yale University for race discrimination in undergraduate admissions. The action was filed in federal district court in Connecticut. The DOJ...
View ArticleAn intervenor in the DOJ’s suit against Yale!
Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. (SFFA) has filed a motion to intervene in the Department of Justice’s suit against Yale. The DOJ’s suit alleges discrimination by Yale against Whites and Asians/Asian...
View ArticleAntiracism at Cornell
Legal Insurrection documents Cornell University’s swing to the left over the issue of race. Cornell University has joined a growing list of universities embracing “antiracist” activism, a euphemism for...
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