“Diversity” Narrows The Liberal Mind (Or Vice Versa)
Stuart Buck emailed notice of an article in The American Prospect (if liberalism becomes passé, should we rename it The American Retrospect?) that unwittingly reveals the degree to which “diversity” has become synonymous with race, at least to liberals. The article discusses a British TV show where the viewers voted on the greatest Britons of […]
Colorblindness Is A Blank SLATE
SLATE has an article on the Michigan cases, “Colorblind in One Eye: The Selective Colorblindness of the Bush Approach to Affirmative Action,” that I found more shrill, patronizing, and polemical — but at the same time less interesting — than most of what appears there. It wasn’t until I read all the way to end […]
Surprise! (Not): AA Bias in the New York Times
In an otherwise interesting New York Times article discussing how the admissions policies at all of the government service academies “appear to contradict their commander-in-chief” because those policies are not race-neutral, Adam Clymer misstates what the administration actually said in the briefs it filed in the Michigan cases. Clymer claims that although the briefs said […]
From The Sublime To The Ridiculous
Joanne Jacobs has a must-see exchange between Ward Connerly and a gaggle of his California critics. Immediately following that is a sadly pathetic cover letter on the resume of a University of Texas applicant who claims to have graduated third in his class from a Dallas high school. Read it and weep.
Republicans Lead With Their Chin
The Republicans richly deserve the hard, clean punch just landed on their hypocrisy today by a Washington Post editorial taking them to task for their recently announced determination to find 200 new black Congressional staffers over the next two years even as they criticize race conscious college admissions. Excuse us, but isn’t this affirmative action? […]
Democratic Desire For Diversity Stops At The Party’s Edge
The Senate Judiciary Committee has just approved the nomination of Miguel Estrada to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the District Court of Appeals on a party line vote of 10-9. When a minority nominee is a conservative, the Democrats’ ostensible desire for “diversity” goes out the window. When they look at a conservative Hispanic […]
The Sky Would Fall
Lee Bollinger, former president of the University of Michigan and now president of Columbia, said in a speech reported by the Chronicle of Higher Education that a Supreme Court decision rejecting the Michigan preference policies would “erode the goal of higher education in this country.” (Link requires subscription) According to Bollinger, affirmative action is crucial […]
Attacking Iraq is… Racist?
I apologize for having my first post here in a very long time be so short, but this, mentioned in a Fox News article on Iraq, just left me staring in disbelief. Former South African President Nelson Mandela, who Bush has praised as a hero of human rights, joined the chorus of critics by calling […]
Secret Weapon Against Saddam!
Amidst all the buzz generated by the president’s State of the Union address last night you might have missed the underreported story of a new American offensive that, if successful, would be sure to stop Saddam in his tracks, neutralize any weapons of mass destruction he may have, and turn him into a good neighbor. […]
Brief Brief Excerpt 2: Michigan Association of Scholars
(This is the second post in an ongoing, occasional series of excerpts from/comments on amicus briefs submitted to the Supreme Court in the Michigan affirmative action cases.) The Michigan Association of Scholars, the Michigan affiliate of the National Association of Scholars, concentrates primarily on refuting the University of Michigan’s educational rationale for racial preferences. On […]
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