Wal-Mart
For those of you who’ve wondered why I haven’t posted anything about the class action sex discrimination suit against Wal-Mart, I think it’s some combination of d
Hispanic Graduation Rates And The Fetish of Proportionality
The Las Vegas Review Journal has an odd article lamenting that “Hispanic college graduation rate lags.” The article is loosely based on a recent report from the Pew Hispanic Center analyzing this gap, but that report is also a bit odd in some of its key findings. The Pew study found that Hispanics were entering […]
Are Blacks Too Dumb To Take IQ Tests?
The state of California thinks so. In a 1979 case, Larry P. v. Riles, substantially upheld by (you guessed it) the Ninth Circuit, I.Q. tests were held to be a legitimate tool to be used in assigning students to special education classes … except for black students. Now comes a black mother of five who […]
Califano Would Confess … But He’s Innocent
About two months ago I posted some critical comments about Mario Cuomo, widely regarded as something like the secular Catholic sage of the Democratic party. Cuomo had recently published a Bush-bashing gloss on Lincoln, and I took that occasion to note at some length that his famous speech at Notre Dame, “Religious Belief and Public […]
Presidents Great And Small
Charles Krauthammer had a very interesting column a few days ago on the “smallness” of Clinton and his presidency. I will not attempt to expand them (Clinton, his presidency, or the column) here, but Krauthammer’s column has provoked some thoughts, as it usually does. Making lists of “the best” or “the greatest” presidents is a […]
“Reflecting” Supreme Court Opinions That “Support” Affirmative Action?
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports today that advocates of racial preference have urged Texas to amend its top 10% admissions policy “to reflect recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions supporting the practice….” Michael Olivas, a law professor at the University of Houston, criticized Texas A&M for refusing “to employ Grutter.” by re-instituting race preferences. In […]
Preferentialists: Hoisted On Their Own Pétard!
According to a fascinating front page article in today’s New York Times, it has begun to dawn on Lani Guinier, Henry Louis Gates Jr., and other preferentialists at Harvard and elsewhere that you’d better be very careful what you subsidize, for you’ll certainly get more of it … and it may not be exactly what […]
Civil Rights Re-Enactors
Roger Clegg has an interesting article in NRO celebrating the first anniversary of the Grutter decision. Well, not exactly celebrating it, but at least noting that after a year things aren’t as bad as we feared they would be and that there are even some grounds for guarded optimism. Along the way he makes a […]
More On Thomas Jefferson…
I have posted before (here and here) on the problem of achieving “diversity” at the over-achieving Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia. For a more extensive discussion of that interesting school, take a look here.
Considering “Considering Race”
[I have just posted my first entry on the “Working Group” section of the new Right on Race blog. Although I reproduce that post (or most of it) below, you may want to check over there after a while in case it receives any Comments. In any event, you’ll want to check that blog regularly.] […]
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