Playing Percentages – The Chronicle
Playing Percentages – The Chronicle of Higher Education has a new article (link requires subscription) touting the benefits of the plans adopted, so far, by California, Texas, and Florida that guarantee admission to the state university system to the top graduates (top 4%, 10%, and 20% respectively) of each high school in the state. These […]
The New York Times Contradicts Itself, Mangles Bob Jones
Criticizing the Bush administration because it “has made ideology the primary consideration in picking judges,” the New York Times today called upon the Senate to … make ideology the primary consideration in picking judges. “Senators are shirking their responsibility,” editorialized the NYT, if they approve nominees “who have not demonstrated … that their judicial philosophies […]
Two Ubiquitous Affirmative Action Fallacies
Two Ubiquitous Affirmative Action Fallacies – I’m tempted to say that if someone can show me a defense of preferential admissions that does not contain these fallacies I’ll give him or her an autographed copy of my next book … or ten cents in coin. I discussed a typical example just two days ago, here. […]
Ideology-blindness? – Democrats oppose color-,
Ideology-blindness? – Democrats oppose color-, ethnicity-, and gender-blindness, but they appear to favor politics-blindness (except, of course, when gerrymandering electoral districts). How else can we interpret the furor from their side of the aisle over the possibility that Miguel Estrada may have asked candidates for a clerkship with Justice Kennedy questions that one of them […]
Race-Baiting in Maryland – In
Race-Baiting in Maryland – In their first debate, sponsored by the NAACP at primarily black Morgan State University “before a vocally partisan crowd of 2,100 people who booed Ehrlich into silence as he sought to make his opening statement,” Democratic gubernatorial candidate Kathleen Kennedy Townsend made this enlightening comment on the sensitive subject of race: […]
Race a “Specialized Talent”? –
Race a “Specialized Talent”? – Joanne Jacobs links to an interesting dialog about elite college admissions at The Atlantic Online between James Fallows and Jacques Steinberg, author of The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College (Viking). So far there are only two (long) entries, but this is good reading for anyone interested […]
Extreme Right, Republican, Whatever –
Extreme Right, Republican, Whatever – New blogger Kaimi Wenger has several interesting posts on the Estrada nomination. He was especially struck by a quote from Nan Aron, head of the Alliance for Justice, in The Nation article by Jack Newfield that was relied on by Estrada’s critics in the Thursday hearing. Aron claimed that “the […]
Politics and War – No,
Politics and War – No, not that war (the coming war with Iraq), this war (the one between Daschle/Democrats and the president over that war). ABC’s influential The Note says “today is likely to be about trying to determine the political impact of yesterday’s explosion.” What explosion? Why “Tom Daschle’s long bomb” accusing the president […]
People for the American Way
People for the American Way Says the Supreme Court Discriminates – In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee opposing Miguel Estrada (link via Howard Bashman), People for the American Way mentions an interview in which Estrada, a former clerk to Justice Kennedy, is said to have minimized the significance of the relatively small number […]
33 “Realist” Scholars Oppose War
33 “Realist” Scholars Oppose War – The academic petitions against war in Iraq continue to pile up. Now come 33 international relations scholars of the “realist” persuasion who, according to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education (link requires subscription), are about to take out an ad in the New York Times claiming that […]
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